#gk chesterton

[feralbutfluffy]

Crowley and Poetry

In the book, Crowley says G.K. Chesterton is "the only poet in the twentieth century to even come close to the Truth."

Take a look at these Chesterton quotes:

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”

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

“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”

“A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.”

#good omens #ineffable idiots #crowley reads and pretends he doesn't #gk chesterton #crowley coded #good omens book

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Father Brown: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man.

Lord Peter Wimsey: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man. Beneath him there lies another very silly man, except this one reads Donne.

#lord peter wimsey books #lord peter wimsey series #lord peter wimsey #lord peter #dorothy l sayers #g k chesterton #gk chesterton #g. k. chesterton #father brown #the complete father brown series

[themaninthegreenshirt]

"A people that forgets its ancestors will care little for its descendants."

G.K. Chesterton

#g.k. chesterton #gk chesterton #quotes #politics #philosophy #writers #reactionary #history #heritage

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

G.K. Chesterton

#chesterton #gk chesterton #quote #literature #writer #politics #ideals #society #culture #practice of politics #democracy #tradition #contract #dead #living and the dead #oligarchy #modern elites

[cannotbestormed-scharfuehrer]

Forgotten Landshark.

#gk chesterton

[1five1two]

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

G. K. Chesterton

#quotes #gk chesterton #politicians

[dedicatedfollower467]

Now that the holidays I have passed, I can post some of the creative projects I was working on that were secret presents for my family!

Today's project is a hand-bound copy of The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, made as a gift for my little brother. This is his favorite book, and he requested wide margins for note-taking and asked me to use the titling from the original 1908 printing. With that in mind, I also took other inspiration from that printing, such as the red full-fabric cover and the font choices.

The text of this book was taken from Project Gutenberg (ebook 1695) and typeset in Microsoft Word by me.

#bookbinding #fanbinding #the man who was thursday #gk chesterton #def binds books

[bookfirstlinetourney]

Round 1

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

-The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

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 it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

-The Napoleon of Notting Hill, G.K. Chesterton

Neil Josten let his cigarette burn to the filter without taking a drag.

-The Foxhole Court, Nora Sakavic

#books #polls #reading #round 1 #tournament poll #the haunting of hill house #shirley jackson #the napoleon of notting hill #gk chesterton #the foxhole court #nora sakavic

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Random person: "I can't believe how wild the Narnia books are"

Me, sitting on the corner with my cigarrette and my glass of wine, watching with endearment and nostalgia a person who has clearly never read Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday: *smiles*

#cs lewis #gk chesterton

[foxilayde]

Oscar Isaac at the 4th annual Children In Conflict—Wassail Winter Gala, hosted by Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford. 5th December 2022.

#‘a messy month’ 🥺 #Oscar Isaac #gk chesterton

[butterflies-and-bumble-bees]

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue. ~ G.K. Chesterton

#gk chesterton #g. k. chesterton #chesterton #catholic #catholicism #christian #christianity #catholic quotes #proverbs 31

[existential-celestial]

“The Singular Speculation of the House Agent,” in The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton

#gk chesterton #g.k. chesterton #the club of queer trades #vanishing things #disappearance #quote #lit #literature #shelf space 2022 #books 2022 #*

[moonstonetombstone]

#gk chesterton #quotes

[lightthewaybackhome]

#homemaking #domestic artist #hearthkeeper #tending hearth and home #lighting the way back home #homemaking quotes #gk chesterton #being broad

[blackswaneuroparedux]

One pint is enough, two pints is one too many, three pints isn’t half enough.

- G.K. Chesterton

#chesterton #gk chesterton #beer #drink #drinker #drinking #culture #society #oktoberfest #german #bavaria

[inspiredbyjesuslove]

#christianity #catholicism #catholic #faith #gk chesterton