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Art consists of limitation.... The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You shouldn't take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
With monstrous head and sickening cry / And ears like errant wings, / The devil's walking parody / On all four-footed things.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Merrily taking twopenny ale and cheese with a pocket knife; / But these were luxuries not for him who went for the Simple Life.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Journalism largely consists of saying Lord Jones is Dead to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is at unimportant moments that a man is a gentleman. At important moments he ought to be something better.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton