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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.