About the author

  Works by the author

Novels

• The Ball and The Cross
• The Club of Queer Trades
• The Innocence of Father Brown
• Manalive
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• The Trees of Pride
• The Wisdom of Father Brown

Poems

• The Ballad of the White Horse

Religion

• Orthodoxy

  Quotations

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.

Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.