Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““Horne Fisher stooped and touched”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“And there, far ahead of me, running by the side of the road, a human. The low sun stretched his shadow out one hundred… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“The two lads were told to wash their hands. The recent thrill of adventure had been superseded by another sort of excitement. They locked… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“A sodden leaf pinwheeled into the coachman’s face and stuck there. He let it remain, as though to make a show of his fitness… — Cecilia Grant Copy Share Image
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“His bit of pencil turned up in the seat pocket of his short trousers, but as the search for the pad continued without issue… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“The collar came first, and when Guerin drew it from his neck he felt the collar's absence like a lightness, his spine unfurling, his… — S.U. Pacat Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
