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Quotes About Dragons

Trev's smile turned into a grin. His dark lashes lowered. "Do you know," he said, "when you smile at me that way, I'd like to…" He broke off his sentence and cleared his throat. "Well. Slay dragons, or something along that line." "Mere dragons?" she inquired. "I was hoping it would be giant squids.
~ Laura Kinsale
He'd forgotten: in fairylands there is evil, too. Monsters and curses. Dangers lurking in disguise. Demons, dragons, rats as big as oxen. things that could destroy you with a glance.
~ Celeste Ng
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
~ Charles Dickens
Once when there were no rivers on the earth, the Jade Dragon was in charge of clouds. She decided when and where the clouds would rain upon the land and when they would stop. She was very proud of her power and of the reverence the people of earth paid her. Jade Dragon had four dragon children: Pearl, Yellow, Long, and Black. They were large and strong and good and kind. They helped Jade Dragon with her work, and whenever they flew in the sky she was overwhelmed with love and pride.
~ Grace Lin
I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.
~ Andrew Motion
She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.
~ Cornelia Funke
He looked so glorious. Just like the knights I had dreamed about when I was six years old, whacking at brambles iin our garden, imagining I was fighting dragons and giants with a sword that made me invincible and wearing armor that protected me from all the things that frightened me - older kids, dogs, a storm in the knight, or my little sister's questions about when our father would be coming back.
~ Cornelia Funke
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
Please do not blame the story. The story cannot help itself. We do not realize it at the time, but sometimes the story we are all a part of is not just a story about Vikings and islands and dragons. It is a story about growing up. And one of the things about growing up, one of the inescapable, inevitable laws, is that one day... One day... one day... It is going to happen. I am sorry, but it's true.
~ Cressida Cowell
CHAPTER THE FIRST (AND LAST) The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to... YELL AT IT! (The louder the better,) THE END.
~ Cressida Cowell
History is a ghost story. My own childhood has passed into history, and the ghosts I find there are the ghosts of Heroes and dragons and Berserks and witches, and it has become fashionable not to believe in these things anymore. But I believe, for I was there.
~ Cressida Cowell
The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.
~ Cressida Cowell
Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
~ Cressida Cowell
Who is to say that your friend's life is worth more than a Dragon's?' said One Eye, who was taking up most of the deck. 'It's worth more to me,' said Hiccup. 'Because I didn't know the Doomfang personally.
~ Cressida Cowell
Books are like dragons....if we do not believe in them, and read them, they will cease to exist. How, then, will we learn the language and understand the stories of the dear dead ghosts of the past? Save the Dragons. Speak Dragonese. Read a book.
~ Cressida Cowell
Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.
~ Cressida Cowell
Please do not blame the story. The story cannot help itself. We do not realise it at the time, but sometimes the story we are all a part of is not just a story about Vikings and islands and dragons. It is a story about growing up. And one of the things about growing up, one of the inescapable, inevitable laws, is that one day... one day... one day... it is going to happen. I am sorry, but it's true.
~ Cressida Cowell
In my beginning is my end....there were Dragons when I was a boy.
~ Cressida Cowell
the witch softly, 'for the dragons' days are numbered
~ Cressida Cowell
Människohjärtan kan krossas, läka och börja slå igen... Kanske är drakhjärtan likadana?
~ Cressida Cowell
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.
~ Charles Kingsley
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
~ Laurie E. Rozakis
That's what love does/ It chases the dragons away/ before their claws can sink in.
~ Toby Barlow
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT DRAGONS BRING LUCK; the trouble is, you never know whether it is going to be bad luck or good luck. And, the worst thing is, dragons have a way of bringing people the luck they deserve.
~ Toby Forward