Quote #185
Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.
More from Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- 'Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be…
- Men that are men again: Who goes home? Tocsin and trumpeter! Who goes home? For there's blood on the grass and blood on the foam, And blood…
- 'Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture.'
- In the city built upon slime and loam, They cry in their Parliament, 'Who goes home?' And there comes no answer in arch or dome, For none i…
- I've searched all the parks in all the cities And found no statues of committees.
- To have seen you and your unforgotten face, Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray, Pure as white lilies in a watery space, It were some…
- Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.