A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.__Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.__Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.__Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.__Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1909
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.__Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.__Gilbert K. Chesterton
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.__Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.__Gilbert K. Chesterton
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.__Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.__Gilbert K. Chesterton