Top 143 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.