G. K. Chesterton/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''The idea that there is something English in the repression of one's feelings is one of those ideas which no Englishman ever heard of until England began to be governed exclusively by Scotchmen, Americans, and Jews. At the best, the idea is a generalization from the Duke of Wellington -- who was an Irishman. At the worst, it is a part of that silly Teutonism which knows as little about England as it does about anthropology, but which is always talking about Vikings.''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', ''Heretics'' (1905)}}

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''(The only man I regularly read).''|'''Hilaire Belloc,''' ''Untitled Ballade'' (1906)}}

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{{quote|''This is that insanely frivolous thing we call sanity. And the elegant female, drooping her ringlets over her water-colors, knew it and acted on it. She was juggling with frantic and flaming suns. She was maintaining the bold equilibrium of inferiorities which is the most mysterious of superiorities and perhaps the most unattainable. She was maintaining the prime truth of woman, the universal mother: that if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', ''What's Wrong With The World'' (1910)}}

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''That dared attack my Chesterton.''|'''Hilaire Belloc''', ''Lines To A Don'' (1910)}}

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''And the sea rises higher.'' }}

 

''Yea, faith without a hope?''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', ''The Ballad of the White Horse'' (1911)}}

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''And all their songs are sad.''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', ''The Ballad of the White Horse'' (1911)}}

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{{quote|''I was very agreeably surprised in him. I had been afraid he would be untidy in his person and aggressive in his manner. He was very huge and ugly, of course, but it is a nice ugliness... one liked his voice -- it was the voice of a gentleman, and suggested not only culture but breeding.... His lecture was very Chestertonian, but much sounder than I had expected and not so fire-worky. He said some really excellent things. I have noted for future use, that his books ought to be read as he speaks -- rather slowly, and delivering the paradoxical statements tentatively. His speaking has none of that aggressive and dogmatic quality which his writings are apt to assume when read aloud.''|'''[[Dorothy L. Sayers]]''', ''Letter to her Parents'' (May 17, 1914)}}

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''Comes up along a winding road the noise of the Crusade.''|'''[[G. K. Chesterton]]''', ''Lepanto'' (1915)}}

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{{quote|''G.K. Chesterton died yesterday. [[P. G. Wodehouse]] is now the greatest living master of the English language.''|'''[[The Once and Future King|T.H. White]]''' (June 15, 1936)}}

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''That the place was run by Jews.''|'''Anonymous,''' ''Epitaph Upon G.K Chesterton'' (''ca.'' 1936)}}

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{{quote|''When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.''|'''Émile Cammaerts''', ''The Laughing Prophet : The Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton'' (1937) : even though this quote is almost always attributed to Chesterton (and may, indeed, be the one most attributed to him), it is not one of his. The mistake is understandable because 1) it sounds exactly like something he would have said ; 2) it was written in a book *about* him.}}

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''"How grand the SUNRISE is tonight!"''|'''Oliver Herford''', ''Confessions of a Caricaturist,'' (1917)}}