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“Adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.” (The Napoleon of Notting Hill Quotes)
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“All revolutions are doctrinal—such as the French one, or the one that introduced Christianity. For it stands to common sense that you cannot upset all existing things, customs, and compromises, unless you believe in something outside them, something positive and divine.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“But humanity as a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“He discovered the fact that all romantics know—that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the chord of monotony is stretched most tight, then it breaks with a sound like song.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“I have never been to St. John’s Wood. I dare not. I should be afraid of the innumerable night of fir trees, afraid to come upon a blood red cup and the beating of the wings of the Eagle.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“In the beginning of the twentieth century you could not see the ground for clever men. They were so common that a stupid man was quite exceptional, and when they found him, they followed him in crowds down the street and treasured him up and gave him some high post in the State.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“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.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power – the power at some moments to outgrow and swallow up the stars.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“When you say you want all peoples to unite, you really mean that you want all peoples to unite to learn the tricks of your people.”
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
