Keith

Famous quotes containing the word keith:

    In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a colour. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)