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/ˈtʃɛstɝtən/
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NOUN
- 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)
How To Use Chesterton In A Sentence
- Hilaire Belloc, J.K. Huysmans, G.K. Chesterton, and Evelyn Waugh (who quoted The Waste Land frequently) all made an initial reputation for nightmarish satire before retreating into a not always convincing nook of Catholicism. Letters to the Editor
- The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. 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.
- He went down to the bookmaker's in Chesterton Road to place a bet on the race.