Keith

Famous quotes containing the word keith:

    For the great Gaels of Ireland
    Are the men that God made mad,
    For all their wars are merry
    And all their songs are sad.
    —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)

    Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)