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G. K. Chesterton Quotes
«God made the wicked Grocer / For a mystery and a sign, / That men might shun the awful shop/ And go to inns to dine.»
«The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force the thing becomes a pressure, and produces def»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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Art
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affects, artistic, perspire, perspiring, temperament, vitality, wholesome
«Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciating, attic, contented, resigned
«For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.»
«As enunciated today, 'progress' is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.»
«No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain.»
«The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.»
«The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.»