Гилберт Честертон: Актуальные цитаты
Актуальные цитаты Гилберт Честертон · Прочитать последние цитатыEverybody wants to be informed honestly, impartially, truthfully — in total accordance with his views.
„На каждом историческом этапе начало конца имело видимость реформ.“
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The beginnings of a decline, in every age of history, have always had the appearance of being reforms.
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)
„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)
Гилберт Честертон книга Перелётный кабак
Глава 23
Victory over barbarians. Employment of barbarians. Alliance with barbarians. Conquest by barbarians. That is the great destiny of Empire.
Перелётный кабак (1914)
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)
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.
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