“The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.”

— G. K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature, 1913

About G. K. Chesterton

1874 – 1936

English writer, critic and Christian apologist, author of the Father Brown mysteries and 'Orthodoxy'.

“The center of every man's existence is a dream.”

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”

“To 'catch' a husband is an art; to 'hold' him is a job.”

“The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”