The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.Father Brown
Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do.Father Brown
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.Father Brown
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.Father Brown
A man who thinks hard about his beliefs believes in them all the more fiercely.Father Brown
The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.Father Brown
Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see reality in the form of spoiler.Narrator
When one loves life, one loves the future.Father Brown
When we are very young children we don't need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mankind is the only kind.Father Brown
The one really rousing thing about the poor is that they can still revolt. It is the most emphatic comment on what people call our industrial system; and, above all, on the strange part of it, that while expanding on such superb and astounding scale, it has left the old inequalities untouched.Narrator
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.Father Brown
But this is a new superstition, not an old one, and it does not bear hard usage.Father Brown
Feminine sex has the dignity of an ancient institution; and, according to the grave principle that antiquity alone can consecrate, it should be dealt with by mankind in general with some sort of awful veneration.Narrator
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing.Father Brown
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.Father Brown
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.Father Brown
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.Father Brown
The sight of a millionaire does me good. It means that there is still room for a lonely millionaire, even here.Father Brown
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.Father Brown
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.Father Brown