Century Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

— Dan Brown

“Legends should stay legends otherwise they just become history, when the natural course of things is the other way around, from history to legend.”

— Ian McDonald

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

— Salman Rushdie

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. Legend means, basically, bullshit.

— Joel Rosenberg

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You…

— Burning Spear

“. . .legends, which in the etymological sense are what one should pass on, are only the symbols of a tradional truth transported from…

— Jean Markale

Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance,…

— Hannah Arendt

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

— Lauren Bacall

Legends are often destroyed by those in need of its stuff.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Even when the facts are available, most people seem to prefer the legend, and refuse to believe the truth when it in any way…

— John Mason Brown

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

— Jean Cocteau

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The…

— Anonymous