All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
G.K. Chesterton
- Life
- 1874-1936
- Occupations
- journalist, poet, novelist
- Notable works
- The Club of Queer Trades, The Man Who Was Thursday, Orthodoxy
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
G.K. Chesterton
His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood.
G.K. Chesterton
It is in the private life that we find the great characters. They are too great to get into the public world.
G.K. Chesterton
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton
What the denouncer of dogma really means is not that dogma is bad; but rather that dogma is too good to be true.
G.K. Chesterton