Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

A good novel tells us the truth about it’s hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

A true gentleman is a man who knows how to play the bagpipes – but doesn’t.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

Art is limitation; the essence of every picture is the frame.