Father Brown Quotes

“Are you a devil?"
"I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart.”
― Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

“It's just because I have picked a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you've seen it it's still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it's a platitude.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember professionals built the Titanic but an amateur built the ark.”
― Father Brown

“If you try to talk about a truth that’s merely moral, people always think it’s merely metaphorical. A real live man with two legs once said to me: ‘I only believe in the Holy Ghost in a spiritual sense.’ Naturally, I said: ‘In what other sense could you believe it?’ And then he thought I meant he needn’t believe in anything except evolution, or ethical fellowship, or some bilge. . . .

-- The Secret of Father Brown”
― G. K. Chesterton

“Madness and despair are innocent enough. There are worse things, Flambeau.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Sign of the Broken Sword: A Father Brown Mystery

“None of us can censor our feelings, Mr Digby, only our actions”
― G.K. Chesterton