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Quotes About Dragons

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
~ George R. R. Martin
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
~ George R. R. Martin
A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons.
~ Keri Hulme, The Bone People
the skies frighten you when they fill up with dragons, but you know they're being chased by dreams!
~ Marianthi Devaki
Be careful, darling. Your footsteps land heavy here. Your racket will wake the dragons.
~ Sarah Kay
There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things...
~ William Henry Hudson
Created in 1972 by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, two friends in their early twenties, Dungeons and Dragons was an underground phenomenon, particularly on college campuses, thanks to word of mouth and controversy. It achieved urban legend status when a student named James Dallas Egbert III disappeared in the steam tunnels underneath Michigan State University while reportedly reenacting the game; a Tom Hanks movie called Mazes and Monsters was loosely based on the event.
~ David Kushner
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I wish people had half the honor of dragons.
~ Terry Goodkind
Be kind to dragons, for thou art crunchy when toasted and taste good with ketchup. (Sebastian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dragonswan
Oh, gods. Not the flying!""I heard you mounted my sister well enough.""I want you never to make that statement again.
~ G.A. Aiken, About a Dragon
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
~ Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
~ Rumi
Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
~ George Lois
PeterSwirling dreamsDragons knewTouching life to winDeep inside many other worldsWhere should we begin?
~ William O'Brien
Drei Drachen kriechen in meinen Schlaf, die Seele woll'n sie lebendig zum Fraß. Feurigen Atems, gespaltener Zunge genießen sie jeden Mahl. Three dragons creep into my sleep, the spirit wanting life in its repast. Fiery breaths, flicking tongues relishing every meal.
~ Jane Jensen
I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
~ John C. Reilly
According to Norse legend, peas arrived on earth as a punishment sent by the god Thor who, in a fit of pique, dispatched a flight of dragons with peas in their talons to fill up the wells of his unsatisfactory worshippers.
~ Rebecca Rupp
Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support in the swaying car. 'Tearing back and forth across the city in their underground caves, devouring people and spitting them out at random destinations.
~ Regina Doman
Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.
~ Rick Riordan
Stick with us, Magnus, and…well, you won't do fine. You'll get killed quickly. But stick with us anyway. We'll wade into battle and slaughter as many as possible!" "That's your plan?" Halfborn tilted his head. "Why would I have a plan?" "Oh, sometimes we do," said T.J. "Wednesdays are siege warfare. That's more complicated. Thursdays they bring out the dragons.
~ Rick Riordan
the wisdom to tame dragons. It's my king's fear Lord Brennus means to capture Querig to fight in the ranks of his army. This she-dragon would make a fierce soldier indeed, and Brennus would then rightly harbour ambition. It's for this I'm sent to destroy the dragon before her savagery turns on all who oppose Lord Brennus. Sir Gawain, you look aghast, but I speak sincerely.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night.
~ William Shakespeare