Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotes

• “To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable....”
• “Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw ...”
• “All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fir...”
• “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposi...”
• “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
• “The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
• “Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.”
• “Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
• “Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
• “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”