Гилберт Честертон: Актуальные цитаты (страница 5)
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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)
The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and enduring democracy is founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
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)
„Надежда — это способность надеяться в безнадежном положении.“
эссе «Язычество и г-н Лоус Дикинсон» (сборник «Еретики»)
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all.
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THE human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
«Лицо на мишени»
Harold March was the sort of man who knows everything about politics, and nothing about politicians. He also knew a great deal about art, letters, philosophy, and general culture; about almost everything, indeed, except the world he was living in.
Человек, который знал слишком много (1922)
„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.
„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)