DRAGON QUOTES II

quotations about dragons

Dragon quote

Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size, their ability to spout fire, or to crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons. In fact, the only terrifying quality that dragons do not possess is that of existence.

DAVID WHITELAND

Book of Pages


Everyone wants the fairy tale, but don't forget there are dragons in those stories.

R. QUEEN

Darkchylde


People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Wave in the Mind: Talks & Essays on the Writer


It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Hobbit


Death comes out of the dragon's mouth.

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

A Dance with Dragons


It is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

A Wizard of Earthsea


He blinked in surprise and was even more startled when the dragon mimicked the action, but did so sideways. A clear membrane coated its eye, then drew back to reveal hues infinitely more searing than before--so vibrant it was painful for Roger to look into them. Orange pulsating like a lava flow, yellow glistening brighter than a city made of gold, green flashing like St. Elmo's fire. All these colors danced not a foot in front of Roger's face, flickering within that gigantic orb.

MELIKA DANNESE LUX

Deadmarsh Fey


When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.

LI BAI

"To His Three Friends"


How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

RAINER MARIA RILKE

Letters to a Young Poet


Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

C.S. LEWIS

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader


If the lion and dragon fight, they will both die.

TADASHI ADACHI

Newsweek, May 17, 1965


So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

The Hobbit


Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Tremendous Trifles


A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

G. K. CHESTERTON

Heretics


Let me tell you: the only way to get rid of dragons is to have one of your own.

EUGENII SHVARTS

The Dragon: a satiric fable in three acts


I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

JOHN LENNON

attributed, Secret of the Dragon's Eye


Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay at home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder.

GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

A Dance with Dragons


I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

The Tolkien Reader


Dragon guarded the treasure
Glittering gold and silver
Smell of sulphur and fire
In the dragon's lair
Hidden in his mountain
Upon the bones of those who failed

MORGANA LEFAY

"Dragons Lair", Maleficium


The ultimate challenge of a teacher lies not in the slaying of dragons, but rather in exposing them as beasts no longer to be feared.

ALAN BURTON

A Wayward Wizard's Wistful Words