G.K. Chesterton Biography

Biography

Type: Journalist, Novelist, Essayist

Born: 29 May 1874, Kensington, London, England

Died: 14 June 1936 (aged 62),Beaconsfield, Bucki

In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic "Ballad of the White Horse", five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly. Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.

G.K. Chesterton Quotes

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

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