Authors — Quotes

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.