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G K Chesterton: Fools! For I...

G K Chesterton: Fools! For I...

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet;
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms...

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G K Chesterton: There's no such...

G K Chesterton: There's no such...

There's no such thing as fighting on the winning side; one fights to find out which is the winning...

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George Eliot: I tell you...

George Eliot: I tell you...

I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman,...

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George Eliot: It is possible...

George Eliot: It is possible...

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the...

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George Eliot: There is a...

George Eliot: There is a...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy,...

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George Eliot: There are glances...

George Eliot: There are glances...

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.

Source: Felix...

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Jane Austen: It is always...

Jane Austen: It is always...

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of...

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Charles Dickens: There's light enough...

Charles Dickens: There's light enough...

There's light enough for what I've got to do.

Source: (Bill Sikes) Oliver Twist,...

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Charles Dickens: Professionally he declines...

Charles Dickens: Professionally he declines...

Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.

Source:...

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Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

Charles Dickens: Wal'r, my boy,'...

'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, `in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never...

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Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

Charles Dickens: It's calm and...

It's calm and - what's that word again - critical! - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and...

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G K Chesterton: To have a...

G K Chesterton: To have a...

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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G K Chesterton: I rose politely...

G K Chesterton: I rose politely...

I rose politely in the club
And said, `I feel a little bored;
Will someone take me to a...

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G K Chesterton: We call a...

G K Chesterton: We call a...

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite...

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G K Chesterton: There are many...

G K Chesterton: There are many...

There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does...

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G K Chesterton: Talk about the...

G K Chesterton: Talk about the...

Talk about the pews and steeples
And the cash that goes therewith!
But the souls of Christian peoples . ....

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G K Chesterton: I want to...

G K Chesterton: I want to...

I want to reassure you I am not this size, really - dear me no, I'm being amplified by the...

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G K Chesterton: The paradox of...

G K Chesterton: The paradox of...

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep...

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G K Chesterton: Tradition does not...

G K Chesterton: Tradition does not...

Tradition does not mean the living are dead, but that the dead are living.

Source:...

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G K Chesterton: Wit is a...

G K Chesterton: Wit is a...

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

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