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Dragons Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.
- 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…
- 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…
- I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.
- Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
- Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the…
- A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
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