Request for G. K. Chesterton quotation in Illustrated London News
ADSGarson O'Toole
adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jun 30 18:54:34 UTC 2014
An inquiry was sent to me for the following quotation attributed to
Oscar Wilde, "Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace". I
have not found any evidence that Wilde said or wrote this.
However, I conjecture that the above statement was derived from
another remark ascribed to G. K. Chesterton: "Art, like morality,
consists of drawing the line somewhere"
The G. K. Chesterton Society lists the following citation for this
quote: Illustrated London News, May 5 1928
Is someone able and willing to access the Digital Archive of
Illustrated London News, Gale Cengage NewsVault, to verify this
citation and obtain a PDF showing the context?
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Garson O'Toole
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