Quotes by : Gilbert K. Chesterton

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

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

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without....

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

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation....

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art,....

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

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we....

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh?....