# The Works of G.K. Chesterton ## Metadata - Author: [[G.K. Chesterton]] - Full Title: The Works of G.K. Chesterton - Category: #books ## Highlights - They were taken seriously because they were avowedly useless extras, like the whole dinner and the whole club. ([Location 894](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=894)) - all those vague and kindly gentlemen were so used to the utter smoothness of the unseen machinery which surrounded and supported their lives, that a waiter doing anything unexpected was a start and a jar. ([Location 934](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=934)) - drinking what the philosophic observer was free to regard either as his last glass on Tuesday or his first on Wednesday. ([Location 2602](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=2602)) - He was a lucid Southerner, incapable of conceiving himself as anything but a Catholic or an atheist; and new religions of a bright and pallid sort were not much in his line. But humanity was always in his line, especially when it was good-looking; ([Location 2926](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=2926)) - The office was kept by two sisters, both slight and dark, one of them tall and striking. She had a dark, eager and aquiline profile, and was one of those women whom one always thinks of in profile, as of the clean-cut edge of some weapon. She seemed to cleave her way through life. She had eyes of startling brilliancy, but it was the brilliancy of steel rather than of diamonds; and her straight, slim figure was a shade too stiff for its grace. ([Location 2928](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=2928)) - Note: sounds like crystal - she had been brought up in castles and gardens, before a frigid fierceness (peculiar to the modern woman) had driven her to what she considered a harsher and a higher existence. ([Location 2934](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=2934)) - the unbearable pathos of details and habit stabbed him with all the small daggers of bereavement. ([Location 3005](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=3005)) - drink is neither good nor bad in itself. But I can't help sometimes feeling that men like Armstrong want an occasional ([Location 3555](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B002AMUDOO&location=3555))