Gilbert Keith Chesterton:
(London, 29 May 1874 – Beaconsfield, 14 June 1936).
English man of letters and journalist. In his writings, he defended the dignity of the human person against all manner of ‘isms’. His sharp, humour-laden attacks earned him great popularity, but also numerous enemies. His best-known works are Orthodoxy (1908), The Everlasting Man (1925) and the short detective stories Father Brown.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
The warrior fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
