Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton 
Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Americans are a very backward people, with all the real virtues of a backward people; the patriarchal simplicity and human dignity of a democracy, and a respect for labor uncorrupted by cynicism.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Art is limitation: the essence of every picture is the frame.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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