Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
