Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

English - Writer | May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

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

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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

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

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New roads; new ruts.

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The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

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