Глава 15
For nothing can really be approved or applauded except finality. That is why all the ethics of evolution and expansive ideas of indefinite progress have never taken hold upon any human crowd.
Возвращение Дон Кихота (1927)
Гилберт Честертон цитаты
Глава 4
But they had forgotten something; they had forgotten journalism. They had forgotten that there exists in the modern world, perhaps for the first time in history, a class of people whose interest is not that things should happen well or happen badly, should happen successfully or happen unsuccessfully, should happen to the advantage of this party or the advantage of that part, but whose interest simply is that things should happen.
Шар и крест (1909)
Это прекрасно, как детская книжка.
Глава 3
Lady Joan broke out laughing again. "What horrible things you do seem to have heard of," she said. "Well, I must be going, Mr. Hump--I mean Mr. Pump--I used to call you Hump . . . oh, Hump, do you think any of us will ever be happy again?". "I suppose it rests with Providence," he said, looking at the sea. "Oh, do say Providence again!" cried the girl. "It's as good as 'Masterman Ready.'"
Перелётный кабак (1914)
Вы говорите, цивилизация ваша откроет простор всем дарованиям. Так ли это? Вы действительно полагаете, будто эскимосы научатся избирать местные советы, а вы тем временем научитесь гарпунить моржей?
When you say you want all peoples to unite, you really mean that you want all peoples to unite to learn the tricks of your people. If the Bedouin Arab does not know how to read, some English missionary or schoolmaster must be sent to teach him to read, but no one ever says, 'This schoolmaster does not know how to ride on a camel; let us pay a Bedouin to teach him.' You say your civilization will include all talents. Will it? Do you really mean to say that at the moment when the Esquimaux has learnt to vote for a County Council, you will have learnt to spear a walrus?
Наполеон Ноттингхилльский (1904)
