![]() ![]() "The modern mind always mixes up two different ideas: mystery in the sense of what is marvellous, and mystery in the sense of what is complicated."You have to know something of the mind as well as the body," answered the priest "we have to know something of the body as well as the mind.".Only a little lunacy, perhaps-and who minds that?" And now I know that there has been no deep sin in this business at all. But we want the real explanation of the castle and the universe." "Ten false philosophies will fit the universe ten false theories will fit Glengyle Castle."You are not mad," said Brown, "only a little unobservant. "Reverend sir," cried Angus, standing still, "are you raving mad, or am I?".“Have you ever noticed this-that people never answer what you say? They answer what you mean-or what they think you mean”.The kind man drinks and turns cruel the frank man kills and lies about it.” “Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.The mystification comes in covering it up, in leading men's thoughts away from it.” “But every clever crime is founded ultimately on some one quite simple fact-some fact that is not itself mysterious.Chesterton Quotes The Innocence of Father Brown ![]() This page is for quotations from the Father Brown series of stories, by G. Chesterton#The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927). ![]() It has been suggested that this article or section should be merged with G. ![]()
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