Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Frases en inglés (página 5)

Gilbert Keith Chesterton era escritor y periodista británico. Frases en inglés.
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“I think that if they gave me leave, Within the world to stand, I would be good through all the day I spent in fairyland. They should not hear a word from me, Of selfishness or scorn, If only I could find the door, If only I were born.”

By the Babe Unborn poem, Delphi Works of G. K. Chesterton (Illustrated)
Fuente: https://books.google.com.br/books?id=LtwZAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-BR#v=onepage&q&f=false

“A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.”

G. K. Chesterton Charles Dickens

Fuente: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 8 "The Time of Transition"

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”

G. K. Chesterton libro Tremendous Trifles

Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. 1.

“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.”

Though sometimes misattributed to Chesterton, this is generally attributed to Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, with the first publication of this yet located is in a section of proverbs called "Diamond Dust" in Eliza Cook's Journal, No. 98 (15 March 1851), with the first attribution to Chesterfield as yet located in: Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1862) edited by Henry Southgate.
Misattributed

“The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.”

G. K. Chesterton libro The Innocence of Father Brown

The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Sins of Prince Saradine
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)

“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

G. K. Chesterton libro All Things Considered

"Spiritualism"
All Things Considered (1908)

“Prince, Bayard would have smashed his sword
To see the sort of knights you dub--
Is that the last of them — O Lord
Will someone take me to a pub?”

"A Ballade Of An Anti-puritan" http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/anti-puritan.html in The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) edited Carolyn Wells, p. 338

“I've searched all the parks in all the cities — and found no statues of Committees.”

As quoted in Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow (2004) by Al Golin, p. 206; also in Storms of Life (2008) by Dr. Don Givens, p. 136

“Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!”

G. K. Chesterton libro The Napoleon of Notting Hill

The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)
The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904)

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”

G. K. Chesterton libro The Scandal of Father Brown

The Scandal of Father Brown (1935) The Point of a Pin
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)