Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

It's unfortunate that in an interview sometimes things can seem so black and white.

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

… what is white to one person may be gray to another.

The mountain trembled like an earthquake. Dust flew into the sky. And the rock turned dark red, like the color of blood'. 'How would you know?' Asks Sindhi cap. 'You only have a black and white television'. 'But it's a very good one. You can almost see colours.

Life is in color, but black and white is more realistic.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.

The locomotives are black. The coal is black. The tracks are black. The night is black. So what am I going to do with color?

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

White is an attitude.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black.

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna suffer a lot. I used to be like that. But I don't believe that anymore.

The privileged position of whiteness doesn't allow for someone with one drop of Negro blood to be considered white, which allows whiteness to be a fairly pure category while blackness has to absorb an expansive reality of representation.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

As I've gotten older, I've realized that things are a lot more permeable. It's not so black and white: not every journalist is a jerk.

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.