DRAGON QUOTES II
quotations about dragons
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size, their ability to spout fire, or to crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons. In fact, the only terrifying quality that dragons do not possess is that of existence.
DAVID WHITELAND
Book of Pages
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer
When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.
LI BAI
"To His Three Friends"
Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don't forget there are dragons in those stories.
R. QUEEN
Darkchylde
It is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
A Wizard of Earthsea
He blinked in surprise and was even more startled when the dragon mimicked the action, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before--so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, green flashing like St. Elmo's fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger's face, flickering within that gigantic orb.
MELIKA DANNESE LUX
Deadmarsh Fey
Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A Dance with Dragons
Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.
EUGENII SHVARTS
The Dragon: a satiric fable in three acts
If the lion and dragon fight, they will both die.
TADASHI ADACHI
Newsweek, May 17, 1965
How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Letters to a Young Poet
Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.
C.S. LEWIS
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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
attributed, Secret of the Dragon's Eye
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Heretics
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 possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Tremendous Trifles
Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
A Dance with Dragons
Dragon guarded the treasure
Glittering gold and silver
Smell of sulphur and fire
In the dragon's lair
Hidden in his mountain
Upon the bones of those who failed
MORGANA LEFAY
"Dragons Lair", Maleficium
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
The Tolkien Reader
The ultimate challenge of a teacher lies not in the slaying of dragons, but rather in exposing them as beasts no longer to be feared.
ALAN BURTON
A Wayward Wizard's Wistful Words