G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) wrote criticism, theology, journalism and detective stories, and argued for the ordinary against an age that found it embarrassing. The Man Who Was Thursday (1908), subtitled “A Nightmare”, is a detective story about anarchists in which almost no one is what they claim. He is heavily misquoted online; a number of the most-shared “Chesterton” lines are paraphrases of his ideas rather than his sentences. Quotes here are cited by chapter.