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Quotes by Gilbert K Chesterton
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
- A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
- A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- 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.
- All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
- Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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