Gilbert Keith Chesterton

GPTKB entity

Statements (42)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instance_of gptkb:philosopher
gptkb:Journalist
gptkb:Writer
gptkb:poet
gptkbp:associated_with gptkb:The_Catholic_Church
gptkb:The_Distributist_League
gptkb:G._K._Chesterton_Society
gptkbp:birth_date 1874-05-29
gptkbp:burial_place gptkb:Perivale_Cemetery
gptkbp:children gptkb:Cecil_Chesterton
gptkbp:death_date 1936-06-14
gptkbp:famous_quote “ There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
“ The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
“ An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.”
“ The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
“ The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware.”
gptkbp:has_written gptkb:The_Illustrated_London_News
gptkb:The_Daily_News
gptkb:The_New_Witness
gptkb:The_Catholic_Herald
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gilbert Keith Chesterton
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:C._S._Lewis
gptkb:J._R._R._Tolkien
gptkbp:influenced_by gptkb:Thomas_Aquinas
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkb:William_Blake
gptkbp:known_for gptkb:detective_fiction
gptkb:humor
gptkb:literary_criticism
Christian apologetics
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:British
gptkbp:notable_works gptkb:The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday
Orthodoxy
The Everlasting Man
Father Brown series
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:essayist
gptkb:Novelist
gptkbp:residence gptkb:London
gptkb:Beaconsfield
gptkbp:spouse Frances Blogg
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Chesterton
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6