Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936), G K Chesterton in short, also known as the "Prince of Paradox", was an English writer, philosopher, theologian, and literary and art critic.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

- Orthodoxy

• Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

- Orthodoxy

• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

- Orthodoxy

• An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

- The Dagger with Wings, in The Incredulity of Father Brown

• To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

- The Innocence of Father Brown

• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

- Heretics

• It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

- The Point of a Pin, in The Scandal of Father Brown

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