The Coloured Lands Quotes

“It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems

“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

“I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the publishers would not let me. 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

“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

“On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem of his own composition to a dim blue promontory in which he recognized one of the capes of Greenland. But it is idle to deny that the general feeling was dampened somehow, when they discovered it was the Cape of Good Hope. In short, the admiral was one of those who keep the world young.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems