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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
By Gilbert Keith 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.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
People accuse journalism of being too personal; but to me it has always seemed far too impersonal. It is charged with tearing away the veils from private life; but it seems to me to be always dropping diaphanous but blinding veils between men and men. The Yellow Press is abused for exposing facts which are private; I wish the Yellow Press did anything so valuable. It is exactly the decisive individual touches that it never gives; and a proof of this is that after one has met a man a million times in the newspapers it is always a complete shock and reversal to meet him in real life.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of himself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson color of it should creep into his vote. The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
By Gilbert Keith Chesterton