Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton quote

Biography

Author, lived 1874 - 1936