Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotations
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Coincidences are spiritual puns.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.