The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEither criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.
Gilbert K. Chesterton[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton