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- Who was the Chesterton’s model for the character of Father Brown?
- Was G.K. Chesterton anti-Semitic?
- “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.”
- “When a man stops believing in God, he doesn’t believe in nothing, he believes in anything.”
- “A thing worth doing is worth doing badly.”
- “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
- “Tradition is the democracy of the dead.”
- “Saying ‘My country, right or wrong,’ is like saying ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’”
- “Sometimes a thing is too big to be seen…”
- “When you break the big laws . . . you get the small laws.”
- “Tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.”
- “We all feel the riddle of the earth. . . The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.”
- Chesterton on home schooling
- Chesterton on self-defense
- Chesterton’s famous debate with Clarence Darrow
- Origin of “3 Acres and a cow”
- “What’s wrong with the world today?” “I am.”
- “The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is …”
- Where are the Chesterton papers?
- “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up.”
- “All their wars are merry and all their songs are sad.”
- “Heaven is a playground.”
- The line from the movie “Peter’s Friends” about being dropped down a chimney
- Life from other planets
- What did Chesterton say about Birth Control?
- “America is a nation with the soul of a church”
- Chesterton’s marriage proposal?
- Other quotations that are attributed to Chesterton
