Tremendous Trifles Quotes

“Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick out points of fire in it, sparks of gold, and blood-red, and sea-green, like the first fierce stars that sprang out of divine darkness.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees as green banners.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“At the four corners of a child's bed stand Perseus and Roland, Sigurd and St. George. If you withdraw the guard of heroes you are not making him rational; you are only leaving him to fight the devils alone.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“There is no subtle spiritual evil in the fact that people always brag about their vices; it is when they begin to brag about their virtues that they become unsufferable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“...boundaries are the most beautiful things in the world. To love anything is to love its boundaries; thus, children will always play on the edge of anything. ... For when we have come to the end of a thing we have come to the beginning of it.”
― G.K. Chesterton