Произведение
Перелётный кабак
Гилберт Честертон
Человек, который был Четвергом
Гилберт ЧестертонЧеловек, который знал слишком много
Гилберт ЧестертонГилберт Честертон знаменитые цитаты
„По-настоящему трусливы только те мужчины, которые не боятся женщин.“
«Макбеты» (сборник «Вкус к жизни»)
As a friend of mine once said, very truly, physical cowards are the only men who are not afraid of women.
Гилберт Честертон Цитаты о мужчинах
Эссе "О чтении"
эссе «Доисторический вокзал»
Brave men are vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. But these modern cowards are all crustaceans; their hardness is all on the cover and their softness is inside.
«Умеренный убийца»
Believe me, it's not the imaginative people who become insane. It's not they who are mad, even when they are morbid. They can always be woken up from bad dreams by broader prospects and brighter visions — because they are imaginative. The men who go mad are unimaginative. The stubborn stoical men who had only room for one idea and take it literally. The sort of man who seems to be silent but stuffed to bursting, congested—
Четыре праведных преступника (1929)
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilization, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
Гилберт Честертон Цитаты о Боге
Они и тут ошибаются. Истина — иная. Видит Бог, я не считаю себя хорошим, но даже мерзавец иногда встает против мира, как святой.
Глава 6
I don’t know whether God means a man to have happiness in that All in All and Utterly Utter sense of happiness. But God does mean a man to have a little Fun; and I mean to go on having it. If I mustn’t satisfy my heart, I can gratify my humour. The cynical fellows who think themselves so damned clever have a sort of saying, ‘Be good and you will be happy; but you will not have a jolly time.’ The cynical fellows are quite wrong, as they generally are. They have got hold of the exact opposite of the truth. God knows I don’t set up to be good; but even a rascal sometimes has to fight the world in the same way as a saint.
Перелётный кабак (1914)
Глава 2
And this experience has made me profoundly sceptical of all the modern talk about the necessary dullness of domesticity; and the degrading drudgery that only has to make puddings and pies. Only to make things! There is no greater thing to be said of God Himself than that He makes things.
Автобиография
Now, there is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
Гилберт Честертон: Актуальные цитаты
„Интеллектуалы делятся на две категории: одни поклоняются интеллекту, другие им пользуются.“
эссе «Упорствующий в правоверии» (сборник «Истина»)
What we call the intellectual world is divided into two types of people — those who worship the intellect and those who use it.
„На каждом историческом этапе начало конца имело видимость реформ.“
эссе «Утопия ростовщиков»
The beginnings of a decline, in every age of history, have always had the appearance of being reforms.
Гилберт Честертон цитаты
Упорствующий в правоверии
For anybody impelled by reason and not by running with a crowd will, for instance, perceive that there are always the same arguments for a Purpose and therefore a Personality in things, if he is a thinking person. Only it is now made easy for him to admit vaguely that there may be a Purpose, while denying that there is a Personality, so long as he happens to be a very unthinking person. It is quite as certain as it ever was that life is a gift of God immensely valuable and immensely valued, and anybody can prove it by putting a pistol to the head of a pessimist.
Вариант: Цитата = Всякий, кто слушается разума, а не толпы, может догадаться, что жизнь и теперь, как и во все времена, — бесценный дар Божий; доказать это можно, приставив револьвер к голове пессимиста.
Глава 23
Victory over barbarians. Employment of barbarians. Alliance with barbarians. Conquest by barbarians. That is the great destiny of Empire.
Перелётный кабак (1914)
„Музыка во время обеда — это оскорбление и для повара, и для скрипача.“
эссе «Об удовольствиях»
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
„Сумасшедшие — народ серьезный; они и с ума-то сходят за недостатком юмора.“
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Madmen are always serious; they go mad from lack of humour.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
Глава 8
Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities.
Шар и крест (1909)
Глава 11
The only defensible war is a war of defence. And a war of defence, by its very definition and nature, is one from which a man comes back battered and bleeding and only boasting that he is not dead.
Автобиография
Исключительная изобретательность Еноха Оутса
We ought not to have all gone mad at once. We ought to have taken it in turns to go mad. Then I could have been shocked at his behaviour on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and he could have been shocked at my behaviour on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. But there is no moral value in going mad when nobody is shocked.
Охотничьи рассказы (1925)
„Сегодня я видел то, что хуже смерти. Это называют миром.“
Глава 2
I have seen something today that is worse than death: and the name of it is Peace.
Перелётный кабак (1914)
He discovered the fact that all romantics know...that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
„Зло подкрадывается, как болезнь. Добро прибегает запыхавшись, как врач.“
Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
„Приключения могут быть безумными, герой их должен быть разумен.“
Глава 4
Глава 4
The adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
Человек, который был Четвергом (1908)
Everybody wants to be informed honestly, impartially, truthfully — in total accordance with his views.
эссе «Юмор» (сборник «Вкус к жизни»)
It is thus a term which not only refuses to be defined, but in a sense boasts of being indefinable; and it would commonly be regarded as a deficiency in humour to search for a definition of humour.
„Спешка плоха уже тем, что отнимает очень много времени.“
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
При всём при том (1908)
Глава 4
Why shouldn't we quarrel about a word? What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn't any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn't there be a quarrel about a word? If you're not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning to me by moving your ears?
Шар и крест (1909)
„Первая из самых демократических доктрин заключается в том, что все люди интересны.“
«Чарльз Диккенс», глава I
We are filled with the first of all democratic doctrines, that all men are interesting.
Вариант: Первая из демократических доктрин заключается в том, что все люди интересны.
