Dragons Quotes (page 5)

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• enough is enough
• personality
• door

Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch the nerve of the ancient instinct of astonishment. This is proved by the fact that when we are very young children we do not need fairy tales: we only need tales. Mere life is interesting enough. A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door. Boys like romantic tales;... Gilbert K. Chesterton

• princess
• doubt
• dragon

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• world
• time
• mindfulness

We're dealing here," said Vimes, "With a twisted mind."Oh, no! You think so?"Yes."But... no... you can't be right. Because Nobby was with us all the time."Not Nobby," said Vimes testily. "Whatever he might do to a dragon, I doubt if he'd make it explode. There's stranger people in this world than Corporal Nobbs, my lad."Carrot's expression slid into a rictus of intrigued horror."Gosh," he said. Terry Prachett

• unicorn
• tag
• play

One of the worst ways of being aroused from sound sleep, is by the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag. Robert Asprin

• wishes
• dragon
• had

I wish people had half the honor of dragons. Terry Goodkind

• light
• path
• love

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons. On this treacherous path. Rumi

• eyes
• sleep
• dragon

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. J. K. Rowling

• pink
• fly
• dragon

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? Neal Stephenson

• him
• confused
• dragon

my dragon? save anybody? you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?... Margaret Weis

• men
• dragon
• sea

Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are one in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted. J. R. R. Tolkien

• world
• fire
• to live

You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world. Anne Roiphe

• evening
• dragon
• bar

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely. C. S. Lewis

• dragon
• live
• laughed

Never laugh at live dragons. J. R. R. Tolkien

• dragon
• wands
• nothing

He was going to be armed with his wand - which, just now, felt like nothing more than a narrow strip of wood - against a fifty-foot-high, scaly, spike-ridden, fire-breathing dragon. J. K. Rowling

• fall
• imagination
• caring

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. Nor can I imagine anything that would do humanity more good than the advent of a race of Supermen, for them to fight like dragons. If the Superman is better than we, of course we need not fight him; but in that case, why not call him a Saint? But if he is merely stronger (whether physically, mentally, or morally stronger, I do not care a farthing), then he ought to have to reckon with us at least for all the strength we have. If we... Gilbert K. Chesterton