A blog dedicated to providing quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential (and quotable!) authors of the twentieth century, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). If you do not know much about GKC, I suggest visiting the webpage of the American Chesterton Society as well as this wonderful Chesterton Facebook Page by a fellow Chestertonian

I also have created a list detailing examples of the influence of Chesterton if you are interested, that I work on from time to time.

(Moreover, for a list of short GKC quotes, I have created one here, citing the sources)

"...Stevenson had found that the secret of life lies in laughter and humility."

-Heretics (1905)
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Sunday, October 25, 2026

Tom Monaghan and GKC

Recently I read Monaghan: A Life by Joseph Pearce, which is a biography of Tom Managhan, best known as the founder of Domino's Pizza. In that book, I came across this passage
In 1986, [Dinesh] D'Souza had published a slim volume, entitled The Catholic Classics, designed as an introduction to ten of the most important Catholic works ever published...Certainly, on looking back on his efforts to immerse himself in the Catholic intellectual tradition, it is perhaps significant and hardly surprising that the two works that [Monaghan] chooses to single out for particular mention from this list are those by G.K. Chesterton and Thomas Merton, which are not only the most modern, being the only titles in D'Souza's list that were published in the twentieth century, but indubitably the most accesible to the modern reader.
The Chesterton book referred to is Orthodoxy.

I also came across this interview on Youtube in which Monaghan also makes reference to this list and his reading of Chesterton, albeit only in passing (before going on to detail also how reading a chapter in Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis greatly revolutionized his life.)

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