Гилберт Честертон: Актуальные цитаты

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.

Глава 4
Глава 4
The adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
Человек, который был Четвергом (1908)

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

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)

эссе «Об удовольствиях»
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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

«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.

Глава 4
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Человек, который был Четвергом (1908)