Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem

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

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall

The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happen

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things