A blog dedicated to providing quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential (and quotable!) authors of the twentieth century, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). If you do not know much about GKC, I suggest visiting the webpage of the American Chesterton Society as well as this wonderful Chesterton Facebook Page by a fellow Chestertonian

I also have created a list detailing examples of the influence of Chesterton if you are interested, that I work on from time to time.

(Moreover, for a list of short GKC quotes, I have created one here, citing the sources)

"...Stevenson had found that the secret of life lies in laughter and humility."

-Heretics (1905)
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Friday, February 1, 2013

...It would at one time have been called a book without which no gentleman's library is complete. It is to be hoped that in our day people may have begun to realise the somewhat obvious and elementary fact that a gentleman's library is never complete. We might as well speak of a man having a complete set of personal friends.
 

-Pall Mall Magazine, Volume 25 (1900)

2 comments:

coffeepotcurve said...

:) I guess this answers the question, can you ever have to many books.

Mike said...

Exactly! :-)