Dragon Quotes
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
W. H. Auden -
If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
Brian Andreas -
I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
Barry Lam -
I love 'Enter the Dragon,' and I love Japanese movies. I love Jackie Chan movies; they are my heroes.
Rain -
Quickly, the dragon came at him, encouraged As Beowulf fell back; its breath flared, And he suffered, wrapped around in swirling Flames -- a king, before, but now A beaten warrior. None of his comrades Came to him, helped him, his brave and noble Followers; they ran for their lives, fled Deep in a wood. And only one of them Remained, stood there, miserable, remembering, As a good man must, what kinship should mean.
Burton Raffel -
The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Francis Bacon
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No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn’t arrived yet.
Barry Webster -
I used to want to be the black dude in 'The Last Dragon.' I wanted to be Ralph Tresvant from New Edition - I thought he was super cool.
Deon Cole -
Does this look like a dragon who would poo in a helmet???
Cressida Cowell -
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Speak politely to an enraged dragon.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?" Bilbo asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
Cressida Cowell -
And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.
Scott Westerfeld -
One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!
Gangrel
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Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.
Arthur Davison Ficke -
Talented or not, I would never assign anyone as young as you two to oversee any preserve, let alone a dragon sanctuary, except as a last resort.
Brandon Mull -
And sometimes the princess needs to get off her ass, pick up a sword, and slay the dragon herself.
Amerie -
The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!
J. R. R. Tolkien