Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is…

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G.K. Chesterton

1905

★ 1.9

Other tags relating to this quote

Topic

Nature of truth Truth vs. fiction Truth

Medium

Short story

Time

1905

Person

G.K. Chesterton

Provenance

Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Club of Queer Trades." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Harper & Brothers, 1905.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

Tis strange,—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Don Juan · 1823

Another quote aboutTopic·Truth vs. fiction

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

Another quote aboutTopic·Truth vs. fiction

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

Another quote aboutTopic·Nature of truth

In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

Democritus

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 240

Another quote aboutTopic·Nature of truth

Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

G.K. Chesterton

1930

Another quote byPerson·G.K. Chesterton

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Truth

Book · 380 BC

Gorgias

Plato

Film · 1950

Rashomon

Akira Kurosawa

Book · 399 BC

The Last Days of Socrates (includes Apology)

Plato

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the… — G.K. Chesterton

Related quotes

Other media