Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"and when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain there woud be no rainbow."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things, and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton