Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

As Daenerys Targaryen rose to her feet, her black hissed, pale smoke venting from its mouth and nostrils. The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

I love monsters.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist.' It's, like, yes they do - the category 'predator' and the category 'dragon' are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

“Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a story parents read to their children at night,” she countered. “That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.”

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

I've always been into monsters.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

Things don't exist until they exist.

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

Now I will believe that there are unicorns.

Look. We both know life is short, Macy. Too short to waste a single second with anyone who doesn't appreciate and value you." You said the other day life was long," I shot back. "Which is it?" It's both," she said, shrugging. "It all depends on how you choose to live it. It's like forever, always changing." Nothing can be two opposite things at once," I said. "It's impossible." No," she replied, squeezing my hand, "what's impossible is that we actually think it could be anything OTHER than that.