Art consists of limitation.
The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
- It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.
- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- 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.
- It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
- I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
Best Quotes
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- Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
- Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
- I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
- They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Everything family does is reflection on the other people.
- I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.