Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Gilbert Keith Chesterton citations célèbres
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"I know that people charge the Church with lowering reason, but it is just the other way. Alone on earth, the Church makes reason really supreme. Alone on earth, the Church affirms that God himself is bound by reason."
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L’innocence du Père Brown, 1911
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
The aim of the sculptor is to convince us that he is a sculptor; the aim of the orator is to convince us that he is not an orator.
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Heretics, 1905
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Citations sur les hommes et les garçons de Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Citations
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
“Ce qu'il y a de plus incroyable avec les miracles, c'est qu'ils arrivent.”
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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L’innocence du Père Brown, 1911
Le monde comme il ne va pas, 1910
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
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Le Club des métiers bizarres, 1905
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
“Est-ce que nous ne sommes tous que poussière? Que c'est beau la poussière, pourtant.”
Are we all dust? What a beautiful thing dust is, though.
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Notebooks
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Plaidoyer pour une propriété anticapitaliste, 1926
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
La Chose, 1929
Je ne dirai pas à M. Rockefeller : « Je suis un rebelle. » Je lui dirai : « Je suis un homme respectable et vous pas. »
Utopie des usuriers, 1917
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Citations en anglais
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 34
A Miscellany of Men (1912)
“Q: What's wrong with the world? A: I am.”
Purportedly a response by Chesterton to the question posed around 1910 by the Times of London (along with other luminaries), but biographer Kevin Belmonte, in 'Defiant Joy: the Remarkable Life & Impact of G.K. Chesterton', was unable to verify. Belmonte surmises its origin in an anecdote that while writing What's Wrong with the World (told in the book's preface), he would delight in telling society ladies that "I have been doing 'What is Wrong' all this morning." http://books.google.com/books?id=1rsXvfW2aiEC
Misattributed
Source: The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), On Algernon Charles Swinburne Ch. III: The Great Victorian Poets (p. 95)
The Club of Queer Trades (1905) Ch. 4 "Speculation of the House Agent"
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
A Short History of England (1917)
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 6
“When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.”
This quotation actually comes from page 211 of Émile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophet : The Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton (1937) in which he quotes Chesterton as having Father Brown say, in "The Oracle of the Dog" (1923): "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense." Cammaerts then interposes his own analysis between further quotes from Father Brown: "'It's drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it's coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition.' The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything: 'And a dog is an omen and a cat is a mystery.'" Note that the remark about believing in anything is outside the quotation marks — it is Cammaerts. The correct attribution was reportedly first traced by Pasquale Accardo. http://www.chesterton.org/ceases-to-worship/ It was also credited to Nigel Rees (as cited in First Things, 1997). http://books.google.com/books?id=NuQnAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+first+effect+of+not+believing+in+God+is+to+believe+in+anything%22&dq=%22The+first+effect+of+not+believing+in+God+is+to+believe+in+anything%22&hl=en&ei=PSzcTvewIefx0gHqmrj0DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ
Misattributed
The Dagger with Wings (1926)
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Queer Feet
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
The Superstition of Divorce (1920)
George Bernard Shaw (1909)
The Club of Queer Trades http://books.google.com/books?id=mjcdk4InFzoC&q="Men+always+talk+about+the+most+important+things+to+total+strangers+it+is+because+in+the+total+stranger+we+perceive+man+himself+the+image+of+God+is+not+disguised+by+resemblances+to+an+uncle+or+doubts+of+the+wisdom+of+a+moustache"&pg=PT93#v=onepage (1905) Ch. 5 "The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd"
book The Club of Queer Trades
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
As quoted in an interview in The New York Times (21 November 1930)
“Art is limitation…. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
Tremendous Trifles (1909)
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Paradise of Thieves
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.”
Source: Utopia of Usurers (1917), p. 31
Said of Benito Mussolini while comparing him to Hildebrand (i. e. Pope Gregory VII), as quoted in "The Pearl of Great Price" by Robert Royal, his Introduction to "The Resurrection of Rome" by G. K. Chesterton in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton (1990) by Vol. XXI, p. 274
“One of his hobbies was to wait for the American Shakespeare — a hobby more patient than angling.”
'The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Secret Garden
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
On William Makepeace Thackeray Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 65)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
Source: The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton http://books.google.com/books?id=9_m6AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Half+the+trouble+about+the+modern+man+is+that+he+is+educated+to+understand+foreign+languages+and+misunderstand+foreigners%22&pg=PA322#v=onepage (1936)
The Secret of Father Brown (1927) The Song of the Flying Fish
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)