Poems List
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. G. K.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
They also serve who only stand wait for the two-fif- teen [train].
They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—” free-love”—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word.
They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
This diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) foi um dos intelectuais mais prolíficos e influentes da Inglaterra do início do século XX. Sua obra abrange poesia, ficção (notavelmente os contos do Padre Brown), ensaios, crítica e apologética cristã. Chesterton era um mestre da paradoxo e da aforismo, usando seu humor e sua inteligência para defender ideias conservadoras e a fé cristã. Sua personalidade era tão marcante quanto sua escrita; era descrito como um homem corpulento, de aparência jovial e com uma mente brilhante e inquisitiva. Lutou contra o que via como o declínio do pensamento racional e espiritual na sociedade moderna, advogando por valores tradicionais e pela dignidade humana.