Keith

Famous quotes containing the word keith:

    Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
    —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)