#g k chesterton

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Father Brown: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man.

Lord Peter Wimsey: Beneath the foolish-seeming exterior there lies an analytical, supremely sympathetic man. Beneath him there lies another very silly man, except this one reads Donne.

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[church-history]

[G. K. Chesterton quote: "Pornography is not a thing to be argued about with one's intellect, but to be stamped on with one's heel."]

#catholic #christian #quotes #g k chesterton #self discipline

[reformedfaerie]

“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”

— G.K. Chesterton

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[words-and-coffee]

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

G. K. Chesterton

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[vox-anglosphere]

King Henry VIII's first Catholic martyr, Thomas More is admired by all faiths. For refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy, he was beheaded.

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[pommedepersephone]

Took the kids to see the exhibit Fantasy: Realms of Imagination at the British Library today and I was struck by how many of the authors did illustrations in their drafts, helping them to envision their characters, their scenes, their worlds.

See drafts from Ursula K. Le Guin, G. K. Chesterton, and of course my beloved @neil-gaiman.

I am curious how common this is by genre. I mean, I do it, but my writing does tend to lean towards fantasy or magical realism.

In summary, the exhibit was amazing. I will have more thoughts when I have recovered from chasing two overly excited 7 year olds through London.

#fantasy #neil gaiman #ursula k. le guin #g k chesterton

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

“Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”

—G. K. Chesterton

#g k chesterton #spirituality #Rome #love #greatness

[zippocreed501]

AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.'

'A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.'

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

'Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.'

'Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.'

Author Extraordinaire G. K. Chesterton

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[a-quiet-madness]

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

-G.K. Chesterton, in Orthodoxy

#g k chesterton

[e--q]

Good Friday with Father Brown 

(Handmade Soft Toy Badger inspired by the character created by G K Chesterton and beautifully portrayed by Kenneth More in the 1974 series Father Brown)

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[peaceandnature]

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic monotony that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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[hejdzz]

Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery; and it saves mental labour very much more than it ought. Scientific phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable. Long words go rattling by us like long railway trains. We know they are carrying thousands who are too tired or too indolent to walk and think for themselves. It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to express any opinion one holds in words of one syllable. If you say “The social utility of the indeterminate sentence is recognized by all criminologists as a part of our sociological evolution towards a more humane and scientific view of punishment,” you can go on talking like that for hours with hardly a movement of the gray matter inside your skull. But if you begin “I wish Jones to go to gaol and Brown to say when Jones shall come out,” you will discover, with a thrill of horror, that you are obliged to think. The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word “damn” than in the word “degeneration.

G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Knees up Father Brown!

Knees up Father Brown!

Into poverty areas you must go

Ee aye Ee aye Ee aye oh!

I won’t catch you bending

‘Cause your a paragon of priestly virtue!

Knees up, knees up

Don’t get the breeze up!

Knees up Father Brown!

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[gailyinthedark]

So you've got five characters, right? Guthrum king of the Danes, his three earls Harold, Ogier, and Elf, plus Alfred who is in disguise.

They're all sitting around a campfire in the middle of a war having a philosophical discussion about What Is Joy and Why Is War that Socrates would be jealous of.

And they're doing it in song, taking turns with the harp like kindergarteners, because that's what you do when you're medieval or a founding father apparently.

And the whole thing is narrated in rollicking poetry that begs to be memorized and said out loud, because somebody somewhere loves gaily very very much.

That's book 3 of the Ballad of the White Horse.

#botwh #g k chesterton #poetry

[afairmaiden]

From G. K. Chesterton's introduction to A Christmas Carol.

#g k chesterton #a christmas carol

[anonymous-witness777]

Innocent Smith to Emerson Eames and Dr. Warner

#original tag via @tzarina-alexandra #manalive #g k chesterton