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Journalist, Poet, Erzähler, kreierte die Detektivrolle "Pater Brown" (England, 1874 - 1936).

Gilbert Keith Chesterton · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Gilbert Keith Chesterton wäre heute 149 Jahre, 10 Monate, 21 Tage oder 54.747 Tage alt.

Geboren am 29.05.1874 in Kensington/London
Gestorben am 14.06.1936 in Beaconsfield/London
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• French novels were written for adults, and confined to adults. English novels were thrown open to schoolgirls - and cut down for them. In Paris the baby was forbidden to read the man's literature; in London the man was often compelled to read the baby's. Both conditions can be described as liberty.

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• From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and pen, From all the easy speeches That comfort cruel men, From sale and profanation Of honour and the sword, From sleep and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord!

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• Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet - that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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• God painted in many colours.

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• Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

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• Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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• He could not think up to the height of his own towering style.

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• He who ceases to believe in God, believes in everything.

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• He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

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• Heights were made to be looked at, not to be looked from.

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• Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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• Humanity never produces optimists till it has ceased to produce happy men.

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• I am incurably convinced that the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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• I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

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• I know it was the fashion in Victorian times to say that England was represented by its great middle class and not by its aristocracy. That was the artfulness of its aristocracy. Never did a governing class govern so completely, by saying it did not govern at all.

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• I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

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• I suppose Gauguin would not approve of his own imitators, for he said, "In art one is a revolutionary or a plagiarist." Remembering the old schools and traditions, we might answer that the great artists have been the plagiarists.

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• I tell you naught for your comfort, Yeah, naught for your desire, save that the sky grows darker yet and the sea rises higher.

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• I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

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• If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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