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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes: 10

  • The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  • To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  • Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

  • Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

  • 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.

  • The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

  • I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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

  • When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

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