The Coloured Lands Quotes

“A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems

“But let the colours you lay on be violent, gorgeous, terrific colours, because my feelings are like that.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems

“The things in this world which are thoroughly insignificant are precisely the things which are singularly rare.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“At last he came to a strange land, where the rocks and mountain crests seemed as ragged and fantastic as the clouds of sunset, where wild and sudden lights, breaking out in nooks and clefts, were all that lit the sombre twilight of the world.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“And must not all stories of brave lives and long endeavours and weary watching for the ideal so end, until all be ended?

I cannot tell you whether he found what he sought. I have told you that he sought it.”
― G. K. Chesterton