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Letter "G" » G. K. Chesterton Quotes
«An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Adventure
| Keywords:
adventure, adventured, adventuring, considered, inconvenience, inconvenienced, rightly, wrongly
«To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.»
«A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Apologies,
Insults
| Keywords:
apologies, apology, compensated, compensates, compensating, healed, injured, injured party, injuring, insult, party, stiff, stiffest, stiffing, wronged
«One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.»
«Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Youth
| Keywords:
adventures, aged, an episode, end of the world, episode, episodes, hopeless, hoping, middle-aged, middle-aged man, survives
«It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better.»
«The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.»
«Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Literature,
World
| Keywords:
fiction, literature, luxury, necessity
«Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.»
«The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.»
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