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Chesterton

[ US /ˈtʃɛstɝtən/ ]
NOUN
  1. conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936)

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  • The play is in some ways a difficult one: we are left wondering whether or not Chesterton believes in magic; if he does, then the conjurer need not have been so upset that he had gained so much power of a psychic nature; if he does not, then the conjurer was a clever fraud or a brilliant hypnotist. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. G.K. Chesterton 
  • There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. G.K. Chesterton 
  • You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. G K Chesterton 
  • Here, curiously enough, the Socialist and the sentimental democratic Catholic of the type of Chesterton sometimes join hands; both will tell you that dirtiness is healthy and ‘natural’ and cleanliness is a mere fad or at best a luxury. [ The Road to Wigan Pier
  • Later, at school in the fifties, G.K. Chesterton was very much in vogue.
  • I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. G. K. Chesterton 
  • Ce livre, L'Univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown. L'Univers de Chesterton
  • Ce livre, L'univers de Chesterton, est fait pour tous ceux qui n'ont pas le temps de suivre dans les méandres de sa pensée capricieuse et exigeante pléonasme dirait-il sans doute le fantasque créateur de ce héros de polar qui est un petit prêtre à la vue basse Father Brown. Chesterton et ses paradoxes
  • To adapt G. K. Chesterton's advice to another public worthy: chuck it, Hockney.
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