Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

There's nothing like the unimaginable to make people believe.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

It's an odd world.

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

If nonsense were black, Sacramento would need gas lamps at noonday. So scurvy a crew I do not remember to have been discovered in vermiculose conspiracy outside the carcass of a dead horse.

… the most superlatively ridiculous thing

This is the most unheard of thing that I have ever heard of

The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.

The idea of saying 'the handsome Pete Holmes' is preposterous.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

Nothing is to wonderful to be true.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

It is to believed because it is absurd.

We nothing know, but what is marvellous; Yet what is marvellous, we can't believe.

In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.