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Quotes About Goblin

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I'd questioned why anybody would want to catch flies unless you were a goblin and used them for croutons.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
We'll give you half now, you give us the gold, and then we give you the other half." "There are three babies. How do you give me half?" He shrugged. "Chop a baby in two." "You know, even for a goblin, that's disturbed.
~ Derek Landy
So even though his involvement with the goblin uprising during his fourteenth year was to be traumatic, terrifying, and dangerous; it was probably the best thing that could have happened. At least he spent some time outdoors and got to meet some new people. It's a pity most of them were trying to kill him.
~ Eoin Colfer
dreamed last night that I was chased all around by a fearful goblin with a big layer cake for a head.
~ L.M. Montgomery
For whatever reason, I made the Goblin Queen nervous. Kurag had proposed marriage once upon a time, but I think it was desire for sidhe magic in the goblin bloodline more than true desire for me. Oh, Kurag would fuck me if I'd let him, but that wasn't much of a compliment. Kurag would probably have fucked anything if it held still long enough.
~ Laurell K Hamilton
Plans were for adventurers. He preferred the goblin approach. Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.
~ Jim C. Hines
The idea of 'Freedom's Goblin,' to me, leads to a wild conversation. I would hope that father and son, driving home from the record store, could have a conversation about what that title means. Because to me, it's the duality of being free: the evil and the good, and how it's a constant paradox.
~ Ty Segall
Where was her soul? Was it up above her in a tree, perched there like a goblin?
~ Alice Hoffman
From the hag and hungry goblinThat into rags would rend ye,And the spirit that stands by the naked manIn the book of Moons defend ye!
~ Anonymous
My Goblin, my very own Goblin. My familiar spirit, my partner in all of life, you belong to me and I belong to you.
~ Anne Rice
After every feeding, I am embraced by him, and blood is drawn from me into him by a thousand infinitesimal wounds, strengthening the image him, and binding to his presence a soft fragrance which Goblin never had before. With each passing month, Goblin becomes stronger and his assaults on me more prolonged.
~ Anne Rice
Tas stared mournfully at the body of the goblin he killed. It had fallen facedown, his dagger buried underneath. "I'll get it for you," Tanis offered, preparing to roll the body over. "No." Tas made a face. "I don't want it back. You can never get rid of the smell, you know.
~ Margaret Weis
Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.
~ Eoin Colfer
Listen to me, goblin. You're stupid, let's accept that and move on.
~ Eoin Colfer
Goblin, that was a dumb stunt. - It sure was. Made me feel forty years younger.
~ Glen Cook
My progress seemed like a journey through the Spessart, where at every step some new goblin or monster starts from the ground or steps from behind a tree.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
Green Goblin The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the Goblin and took the spider out.
~ Spider-Man
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We were where we we had never been in our lives. Visitors--visiting even ourselves. The bats were part of the sun's machinery, Connected to the machinery of the flowers By the machinery of insects. The bats' meaning Oiled the unfailing logic of the earth. Cosmic requirement--on the wings of a goblin. A rebuke to our flutter of half-participation... Those bats had their eyes open. Unlike us, They knew how, and when, to detach themselves From the love that moves the sun and other stars.
~ Ted Hughes
Light as feathers the witches fly, The horn of the moon is plain to see; By a firefly under a jonquil flower A goblin toasts a bumble-bee.
~ Katherine Mansfield
on a Corncrake call…] Fairy music is said to do this; to lead a man on in his confusion and drunkenness, to start, then stop, then begin again from another place, ever luring him on. This was not a beautiful music, it has to be said; hardly the art of fairies. Mind you, it could be a goblin carpenter, sawing away at his little workbench, if you'd had a few too many at the island disco and were of a fanciful mind.
~ Kathleen Jamie
The poem was called "Goblin Market," and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other Poems. Christina
~ Tim Powers
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