You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNone of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton