Dragons Quotes

• It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Law
  • Wish
  • Parliament

• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • People
  • Up
  • Sheep

• There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Moon

• There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more. There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Time
  • May
  • Come

• My wretched dragon is perplexed.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Wretched

• Ingesting divine cinnabar will make your life span inexhaustible. You will last as long as heaven and earth, be able to travel on clouds and ride dragons, and ascend at will to the Heaven of Highest Clarity.

  

  Ge Hong
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Dragons

• You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

  

  William Finnegan
  • Past
  • Certain
  • Intense

• What do you know about dragons?” “They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.” His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins.

  

  Katie MacAlister
  • Sacrifice
  • Creatures
  • Villages

• I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Long
  • Stupid
  • Lies

• If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I'd be golden.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Fire
  • Breathing
  • Puppy

• I shopped with G-Dragon a long time ago but now that we live together, I can't buy clothes with him.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Long
  • Together
  • Clothes

• But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Not Exist
  • Never Been
  • Dark Ages

• I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Creation

• The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

  

  Adam Nevill
  • Dragons
  • Treasures
  • Guarded

• I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

  

  Anna Kavan
  • Dragons
  • Met
  • Telephone

• You can actually muck with history and think about what if, why not. What if there were dragons in the Incan Empire that allowed them to resist colonization? What if there were a massive dragon empire in the middle of the interior of southern Africa that decided to take objection to the slave trade?

  

  Naomi Novik
  • Slave
  • Trade
  • Southern

• She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • Magic
  • Naked

• There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

  

  William Henry Hudson
  • World
  • Silent
  • Incredibles

• Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Dragons
  • Delay

• My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Humanity

• I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Believe
  • Myths
  • Fairies

• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Happiness
  • Fight
  • Fairytales

• I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Beautiful
  • Desire
  • Imagination

• I don't know how to say it, but after last night I feel different. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back. It isn't right to see Elves now, nor dragons, nor mountains, that I want - I don't rightly know what I want: but I have something to do before the end, and it lies ahead, not in the Shire. I must see it through, sir, if you understand me.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Different
  • Way
  • Understand

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