Гилберт Честертон: Актуальные цитаты

Глава 5
LORD IVYWOOD shared the mental weakness of most men who have fed on books; he ignored, not the value but the very existence of other forms of information.
Перелётный кабак (1914)

«Франциск Ассизский»
Newspapers not only deal with news, but they deal with everything as if it were entirely new.

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For it stands to common sense that you cannot upset all existing things, customs, and compromises, unless you believe in something outside them, something positive and divine.
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)

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)

эссе «Язычество и г-н Лоус Дикинсон» (сборник «Еретики»)
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all.