Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past. Gilbert K. Chesterton on age
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. Gilbert K. Chesterton on alone
Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. Gilbert K. Chesterton on alone
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Gilbert K. Chesterton on architecture
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert K. Chesterton on architecture
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. Gilbert K. Chesterton on architecture
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. Gilbert K. Chesterton on art
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 on art
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Gilbert K. Chesterton on art
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. Gilbert K. Chesterton on art
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. Gilbert K. Chesterton on best
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 on best
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. Gilbert K. Chesterton on change
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. Gilbert K. Chesterton on courage
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. Gilbert K. Chesterton on courage
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Gilbert K. Chesterton on education
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 on education
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. Gilbert K. Chesterton on education
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. Gilbert K. Chesterton on education
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Gilbert K. Chesterton on education