Gilbert Keith Chesterton híres idézetei
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Idézetek az emberekről
VII. Örök forradalom
Igazságot! (Orthodoxy) (1909)
VI. A kereszténység paradoxonai
Igazságot! (Orthodoxy) (1909)
Eretnekek (1905)
IV. Tündérország etikája
Igazságot! (Orthodoxy) (1909)
Gilbert Keith Chesterton idézetek
1. Két kolduló barát
Aquinói Szent Tamás (1933)
II. A negatív szellemről
Eretnekek (1905)
4. Elmélkedés a manicheusokról
Aquinói Szent Tamás (1933)
7. Az örökkévaló filozófia
Aquinói Szent Tamás (1933)
IX. Tekintély és kaland
Igazságot! (Orthodoxy) (1909)
IX. Tekintély és kaland
Igazságot! (Orthodoxy) (1909)
„Isten rejtélyei sokkal megnyugtatóbbak, mint az ember megoldásai.”
Idézetek forrás nélkül
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Idézetek angolul
Alarms and Discursions (1910), 'The New House,' pp. 161-162
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”
"Spiritualism"
All Things Considered (1908)
"A Ballade Of An Anti-puritan" http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/anti-puritan.html in The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) edited Carolyn Wells, p. 338
“I've searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of Committees.”
As quoted in Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow (2004) by Al Golin, p. 206; also in Storms of Life (2008) by Dr. Don Givens, p. 136
The Dagger with Wings (1926)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
Illustrated London News (19 April 1930)
“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) The Point of a Pin
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986), p. 71
“I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.”
Patrick Dalroy in The Flying Inn (1914), p 295
'No,' said Father Brown.
The Dagger with Wings (1926)
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”
According to The American Chesterton Society http://www.chesterton.org/qmeister2/19.htm, this quotation is actually a paraphrase by John F. Kennedy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy of a passage from The Thing (1929) in which Chesterton made reference to a fence or gate erected across a road: "The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."
Misattributed
“The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.”
"A Defence of Slang"
The Defendant (1901)
“The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.”
Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies (p. 24)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
“She hasn’t got any intellect to speak of; but you don’t need any intellect to be an intellectual.”
The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) The Scandal of Father Brown
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies (p. 8)
The Victorian Age in Literature (1913)
Michael Moon in Manalive (1912)
“It is always the secure who are humble.”
"A Defence of Humilities"
The Defendant (1901)
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Three Tools of Death
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
Illustrated London News (23 October 1909)
"Holding on to Romanticism" in The Illustrated London News (2 May 1931)
“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.”
Forrás: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch 1 : "The Dickens Period"
Forrás: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 10 "The Great Dickens Characters"
“The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.”
The Flying Inn (1914)
Forrás: The Victorian Age in Literature (1913), Ch. II: The Great Victorian Novelists (p. 73)
