Author of quotes: Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Page 2

A good novel tells the truth about your hero, bad - about your author.

In courage there is an obvious contradiction: a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Drink when you're happy, and in no case do not drink when you're unhappy.

Adventures do not happen on Sunny days and in the days of gray. Strained monotone string out, and it breaks so loud, sounded like a song.

In Gemini there is something frightening, like the present could only be one of them.

... but before he had, automatically, just force of habit, to replace the word "God" to "circumstances".

The truth to this day lags behind by half an hour from slander, and no one knows where and when it will catch up.

- You must be right, - has thoughtfully said the Professor. - You can ask him. But I confess I would be afraid of asking Sunday who he is.
Why? - asked the Secretary. - You are afraid that he will kill you?
"I am," said the Professor, - that he will answer me.

- You have not heard, the Baker, the great destiny of Empire?
- I think I heard something, ' said Dorian.
- It is divided into four acts, said DelRoy. - Victory over the barbarians. The exploitation of the barbarians. The Alliance with the barbarians. The victory of the barbarians. Such is the fate of impresii.

The difference between the creature and the creation is a creation you can fall in love only already created and the creation is love uncreated.

You can see the tree in the light of the lantern. There will come a day when you will finally see the lantern in the light of the tree?

Freedom is the artist in the man.

When the triumph is the measure of all, fans of success not wait. While hope remains, it is treated as commonplace and vulgar; and only when things are hopeless that hope begins to gain momentum. Like all Christian virtues, and she is reckless, and binding.

Typically the sincerity of the answer feigned kindness, or coldness, or stupid and gross misunderstanding.