The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
- All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
- Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.