| Quote | Author | Source |
| "The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic."
| G. K. Chesterton | The Innocence of Father Brown (The Blue Cross) |
| As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reckon on the unforeseen.
| G. K. Chesterton | The Innocence of Father Brown (The Blue Cross) |
| The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
| G. K. Chesterton | The Innocence of Father Brown (The Blue Cross) |
| "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
| G. K. Chesterton | The Man Who Was Thursday |
| "I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead to a lobster. It is commonly the other way."
| G. K. Chesterton | The Man Who Was Thursday |
| "There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself--there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold."
| G. K. Chesterton | The Man Who Was Thursday |
| "Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity."
| G. K. Chesterton | The Man Who Was Thursday |
| "To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it."
| G. K. Chesterton | The Wisdom of Father Brown |
| It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver.
| G. K. Chesterton | The Wisdom of Father Brown |
| I know that journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
| G. K. Chesterton | The Wisdom of Father Brown |
