Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine, in a review of a biography of Chesterton, observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."Chesterton is well known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and for his reasoned apologetics. Even some of those who disagree with him have recognized the wide appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton, as a political thinker, cast aspersions on both Progressivism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected." Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism from High Church Anglicanism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius." Biographers have identified him as a successor to such Victorian authors as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, Cardinal John Henry Newman, and John Ruskin.
University College London, St Paul's School, London, Slade School of Fine Art
Nationality
British
Spouse
Frances Blog
Parents
Marie Louise, Edward Chesterton
Siblings
Cecil Chesterton
Nominations
Nobel Prize in Literature
Movies
He can't stop doing it, Light's Diamond Jubilee, Red Haired Revolver
Star Sign
Gemini
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Quote
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[on neighbors] We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbor.
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[on loyalty] We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
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Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.
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Law, when it ceases to be justice, ceases even to be law.
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My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Fact
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Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 60-69. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Father Brown
2013-2016
TV Series based on the character created by - 45 episodes
G.K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense
TV Series original text - 18 episodes, 2011 - 2014 characters - 1 episode, 2014
Mole in the Hole
2014
Short inspired by
Manalive
2012
book
Theater of the Word, Inc.
2009
TV Series story - 1 episode
The Surprise
2007
TV Movie play
Sei delitti per padre Brown
1988
TV Mini-Series characters
Sanctuary of Fear
1979
TV Movie stories
Veidas taikinyje
1979
TV Mini-Series story
Estudio 1
1975
TV Series 1 episode
Father Brown
TV Series story - 11 episodes, 1974 stories - 2 episodes, 1974
Pater Brown
1966-1972
TV Series stories - 39 episodes
I racconti di Padre Brown
1970
TV Series novel
Une soirée au bungalow
1969
TV Movie novel "La merveilleuse aventure du major Brown"
Tod dem Major Brown
1965
TV Short novel - as Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Detective
1964
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Er kanns nicht lassen
1962
stories - as Gilbert K. Chesterton
Der Mann, der Donnerstag war
1960
TV Movie novel "The Man Who Was Thursday"
Das schwarze Schaf
1960
stories - as Gilbert K. Chesterton
Die Galerie der großen Detektive
1955
TV Series story - 1 episode
Light's Diamond Jubilee
1954
TV Movie documentary story
The Detective
1954
stories
The Man Who Was Thursday
1947
TV Movie novel "The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare"