Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Tremendous Trifles: "Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before."
Heretics: "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
Napolean Of Notting Hill: “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
The Defendant: "'My country, right or wrong,' us a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"
GK Chesterton, The Poetry Of
The Hole In The Wall And Other Stories: “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
The Club Of Queer Trades: "There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked."
The Man Who Knew Too Much: “Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.”
The Face In The Target And Other Stories: “Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
Alarms And Discursions (A Selection Of Essays)
The Awful Reason Of The Vicars Visit And Other Short Stories: “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
The Flying Stars And Other Stories: “I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
Orthodoxy: "The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits."
The Crimes Of England: “There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
A Miscellany Of Men: "Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away."
The Head Of Caesar And Other Stories: “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
The Man Who Was Thursday: "It is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely."
The Trees Of Pride: “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
The Temple Of Silence & Other Stories: “Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
The Man And His Image And Other Poems
Twelve Types: “Just going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than standing in your garage makes you a car.”
30 Mystery & Investigation masterpieces
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Wisdom of Father Brown
The Incredulity of Father Brown
Robert Browning
The Defendant
The Ball and the Cross
Magic - A Fantastic Comedy in a Prelude and Three Acts
The Wild Knight and Other Poems
St. Francis of Assisi
St. Francis of Assisi
The Innocence of Father Brown
The Complete Father Brown Stories
The Awful Reason of the Vicar's Visit
The Eccentric Seclusion of the Old Lady
The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd
The Painful Fall of a Great Reputation
The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent
The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
The Ball and the Cross
The Flying Inn
Manalive
George Bernard Shaw
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy
Orthodoxy
Poems
The Barbarism of Berlin
The Club of Queer Trades
The Wisdom of Father Brown
