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Quotes About Dwarfs

All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
~ Terry Pratchett
I thought dwarfs loved gold, said Angua. They just say that to get it into bed.
~ Terry Pratchett
It is impossible to accommodate everyone and twice as impossible to please all the dwarfs.
~ Terry Pratchett
He sat back and drank the really horrible tea the dwarfs made. Just for a moment there was an unusual feeling on bliss. Strange word, he thought. It's one of those words that described something that does not make a noise but if it did make a noise would sound just like that. Bliss . It's like the sound of a soft meringue melting gently on a warm plate.
~ Terry Pratchett
Dwarfs can often do the work of giants when they are transformed by the almost magic power of great mental concentration. But giants will only do the work of dwarfs when they lack this power.
~ Napoleon Hill
Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
~ Tom Robbins
Yedi cücelerin tek t?raÅŸ olan? Ahmak't?. Bu bize, t?raÅŸ olmaktaki bilgelik hakk?nda bir fikir verebilir
~ Tom Robbins
Ymir's body is divided so that everything, even his eyebrows, were used in the creation of the world; the four dwarfs who hold up the sky; the wolves that chase the sun and moon; the giant's eyes that are tossed up into heaven and turned into stars: these and a host of other particulars become narrative elements within the cycle.
~ Kevin Crossley-Holland
Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs are bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
~ George R. R. Martin
All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.
~ George R.R. Martin
Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king.
~ George R.R. Martin
Did I offend you?" Lannister said. "Sorry. Dwarfs don't have to be tactful. Generations of capering fools in motley have won me the right to dress badly and say any damn thing that comes into my head.
~ George R.R. Martin
Less reliable tales also reached his ears, of a dwarf witch who haunted a hill in the riverlands, and a dwarf whore in King's Landing renowned for coupling with dogs. His own sweet sister had told him of the last, even offering to find him a bitch in heat if he cared to try it out. When he asked politely if she were referring to herself, Cersei had thrown a cup of wine in his face.
~ George R.R. Martin
If walls could keep us small, peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants," said Ser Jorah. "I've seen huge men born in hovels, and dwarfs who dwelt in castles.
~ George R.R. Martin
What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
~ George R.R. Martin
All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes
~ George RR Martin
It's hopeless, he went on. We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past! We are dwarfs, William admitted, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.
~ Umberto Eco
Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! -Somos enanos -admitió Guillermo-, pero enanos subidos a los hombros de aquellos gigantes, y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.
~ Umberto Eco
Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes! —Somos enanos —admitió Guillermo—, pero enanos subidos sobre los hombros de aquellos gigantes y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.
~ Umberto Eco
När det gällde traditioner kunde man inte argumentera med dvärgar, lika lite som med präster om religion.
~ Cornelia Funke
Fair queen, at home there is none like thee, But over the mountains is Snow-white free, With seven little dwarfs, who are strange to see; A thousand times fairer than thou is she. Queen, thou art not the fairest now; Snow-white over the mountain's brow A thousand times fairer is than thou. Queen, thou art the fairest here, But not when Snow-white is near; Over the mountains still is she, Fairer a thousand times than thee.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
We all have our paradigms," I said. "Every generation has different ones. For my generation, it's books with covers. For yours it's selfies and what you ate for lunch and dwarfs doing calisthenics on YouTube.
~ Timothy Hallinan
There was good in seahorses, in yellow dwarfs of destiny, but they are in no way adapted to the requirements of modern life. Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
~ Unknown
Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. Others-blue giants-burn their fuel so fast they shine across great distances, and are easy to see. As they start to run out of fuel, they burn helium, grow even hotter, and explode in a supernova. Supernovas, they're brighter than the brightest galaxies. They die, but everyone watches them go.
~ Jodi Picoult