Robert Browning

“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry," answered Father Brown. "The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.””

— G. K. Chesterton

“Next year, maybe, she will look back on the experience and tell her friends that it was "fun"; but oh, the pity of it, not to gather the flowers of the Present, to let them wither, and never pluck them till they are dried wrecks of the Past!””

— G. K. Chesterton

“A radical does not mean a man who lives on radishes," remarked Crook, with some impatience; "and a Conservative does not mean a man who preserves jam. Neither, I assure you, does a Socialist mean a man who desires a social evening with the chimney-sweep. A Socialist means a man who wants all the chimneys swept and all the chimney-sweeps paid for it.””

— G. K. Chesterton

“if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.””

— G. K. Chesterton

“If ever any one should put it all in a book,” he said to himself, “there are few who would believe it possible. It is not by my own strength that I have done it.” The man had no consciousness of blasphemy in him as he revolved this thought in his mind. He was as thoroughly in earnest as were any of those religious fanatics who, throughout history, have burned, sacked, and destroyed, committing every sin under heaven in the name of a God of peace and of mercy.””

— G. K. Chesterton

“Shorne I remained up to the time at which this history opens, finding in Mr. Leigh and his wife the kindest and most indulgent””

— G. K. Chesterton

“That woman's over-driven," said Father Brown; "that's the kind of woman that does her duty for twenty years, and then does something dreadful.””

— G. K. Chesterton