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Come Rain or Come Shine
G. K. Chesterton (Author of Come Rain or Come Shine)

“A man’s minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change.” (Tremendous Trifles Quotes)

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Being a nation means standing up to your equals, whereas being an empire only means kicking your inferiors.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“For my part, I think brightness more important than cleanliness; since the first is of the soul, and the second of the body.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“For the perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them; what we call its triviality is really the tag-ends of numberless tales; ordinary and unmeaning existence is like ten thousand thrilling detective stories mixed up with a spoon.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“He is a sane man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“I can imagine no more successful and productive form of manufacture than that of making mountains out of molehills.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Of a sane man there is only one safe definition. He is the man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. It wishes for light upon that awful matter, it asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the thing that I felt in that jury box. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“People always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become insufferable.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“Satan was the most celebrated of Alpine guides, when he took Jesus to the top of an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the earth. But the joy of Satan in standing on a peak is not a joy in largeness, but a joy in beholding smallness, in the fact that all men look like insects at his feet. It”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less he knows it.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them; what we call it’s triviality is really the tag-ends of numberless tales; ordinary and unmeaning existence is like ten thousand thrilling detective stories mixed up with a spoon.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

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

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“There are some refusals which, though they may be done what is called conscientiously, yet carry so much of their whole horror in the very act of them, that a man must in doing them not only harden but slightly corrupt his heart. One of them was the refusal of milk to young mothers when their husbands were in the field against us. Another is the refusal of fairy tales to children.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“To hurry through one’s leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

“You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.”

G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles

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