Quotes on Stranger Than Fiction

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

Tis strange,-but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction: if it could be told, How much would novels gain by the exchange! How differently the world would men behold!

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

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not conceive the things that are merely commonplace to existence. If we could hover over this great city, remove the roofs, and peep in at the things going on, it would make all fiction, with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions flat, stale and unprofitable.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.