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Quotes About Dwarf

Silverfish looked down. Oh. Are you a dwarf? Cuddy gave him a blank stare. Are you a giant? He said. Me? Of course not! Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes.
~ Terry Pratchett
The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you'd rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot.
~ Terry Pratchett
A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique. Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy.. Guild member? Not any more, sir. Oh? How did you leave the guild? Through the roof, sir. But I'm pretty certain I know what I did wrong.
~ Terry Pratchett
For the enemy is not Troll, nor it is Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good.
~ Terry Pratchett
Don't be ridiculous, man, said Ridcully, there's no such thing as dwarf smuggling. Yeah? Then what's that you've got there? I'm a giant, said Casanunda. Giants are a lot bigger. I've been ill.
~ Terry Pratchett
Sacharissa saw a movement. Boddony had pulled his axe out from under the bench. It was a traditional dwarf axe. One side was a pickaxe, for the extraction of interesting minerals, and the other side was a war axe, because the people who owned the land with the valuable minerals in it can be so unreasonable sometimes.
~ Terry Pratchett
We try to make guests feel welcome, said Dee, scuttling behind his desk. He pulled off his pointed hat and, to Vimes's amazement, put on a pair of thick smoked glasses. You had papers? he said. Vimes handed them over. It says here His Grace, the dwarf said, after reading them for awhile. Yes, that's me. And there's a sir. That's me, too. And an excellency. 'fraid so. Vimes narrowed his eyes. I was blackboard monitor for awhile, too.
~ Terry Pratchett
Why is it all Mr. Dibbler's films are set against the background of a world gone mad?" said the dwarf. Soll's eyes narrowed. "Because Mr. Dibbler," he growled, "is a very observant man.
~ Terry Pratchett
dwarf galaxies, have as few as ten million stars. The biggest, the giants, have been estimated to contain in the region of 100 trillion.
~ Brian Cox
is Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal, at 1ft 9½ins (54.6cm), a primordial dwarf who enjoyed a long life for those with his condition – he died in 2015 at the age of seventy-five. As is demonstrated by these examples, genetics is not the only influence on our adult stature.
~ Sue Black
The word midget makes me money.
~ Hornswoggle
And therein were many knights and squires to behold, scaffolds and pavilions; for there upon the morn should be a great tournament: and the lord of the tower was in his castle and looked out at a window, and saw a damosel, a dwarf, and a knight armed at all points.
~ Thomas Malory
Starting with the partners, we've got a goblin, a giant and the Queen of the Fey. Then there's Mr Shumway, he's a dwarf. And you're a pig, so really it doesn't look like being human's exactly a requirement, is it? In fact, they've probably only got a couple of token humans so as not to get in trouble with the equal-opportunities people.
~ Tom Holt
Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
it is real, all of it, he thought, the wars, the intrigues, the great bloody game, and me in the center of it... me, the dwarf, the monster, the one they scorned and laughed at, but now i hold it all, the power, the city, the girl. this was what i was made for, and gods forgive me, but i do love it... and her. and her." (tyrion lannister)
~ George R. R. Martin
He says that it is good luck to rub the head of a dwarf," Haldon said after an exchange with the guard in his own tongue. Tyrion forced himself to smile at the man. "Tell him that it is even better luck to suck on a dwarf's cock.
~ George R.R. Martin
Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He's been taken by the Starks and we've lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king. The dwarf smiled crookedly. "All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.
~ George R.R. Martin
The dwarf has risen from the dead, Tyrion thought. And look, he's uglier than ever, run tell your friends.
~ George R.R. Martin
This is folly, Tyrion,' declared Lord Tywin. 'Speak to the matter at hand. You are not on trial for being a dwarf. 'That is where you err, my lord. I have been on trial for being a dwarf my entire life.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am sorry for your loss as well, Joffrey," the dwarf said. "What loss?" "Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you'll recall him if you try. He was king before you." "Oh, him. Yes it was very sad, a boar killed him." "Is that what 'they' say, Your Grace?
~ George R.R. Martin
She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face, and stuck his tongue out, and the girl began to cry. 'What did you do to her?' Duck asked. 'I blew her a kiss. All girls cry when I kiss them.
~ George R.R. Martin
I am sorry for your loss as well, Joffrey" the dwarf said. "What loss?" "Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you'll recall him if you try. He was king before you
~ George R.R. Martin
Then I am not a dwarf. My father will rejoice to hear it.
~ George R.R. Martin
In the Tolkien, not the endocrinological or Snow White sense, Randy is a Dwarf. Tolkien's Dwarves were stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent a lot of time in the dark hammering out beautiful things, e.g. Rings of Power. Thinking of himself as a Dwarf who had hung up his war-ax for a while to go sojourning in the Shire, where he was surrounded by squabbling Hobbits (i.e., Charlene's friends), had actually done a lot for Randy's peace of mind over the years.
~ Neal Stephenson