Gilbert K. Chesterton Fairy Quotations

Fairy tales are more than true ...

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.