Favorite Father Brown Stories Quotes

“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Favorite Father Brown Stories

“The people who wrote the medieval ballads,' answered the priest, 'knew more about fairies than you do. It isn't only nice things that happen in fairyland.'
'Oh, bosh!' said Flambeau. 'Only nice things could happen under such an innocent moon. I am for pushing on now and seeing what does really come. We may die and rot before we ever see again such a moon or such a mood.'
'All right,' said Father Brown. 'I never said it was always wrong to enter fairyland. I only said it was always dangerous.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Favorite Father Brown Stories