quotations about dragons
Here, in this sweltering cell, far from her people and her land, she did not feel like a dragon. For the first time in a long time, she felt like a girl. It terrified her. Because there was nothing in the world more vulnerable to be than a girl.
KIERSTEN WHITE
Bright We Burn
The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you're just a wee dragon lad.
SULLY TARNISH
The Dragon and the Apprentice
Take a ride on the black dragon
Room enough for everyone
Take a ride on the black dragon
If ya down and need some fun
THE VINES
"Black Dragon", Future Primitive
If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.
GREG HAMERTON
Second Sight
Remember, there were dragons long before men came into the world. Why, it was none other than The Great Dragons of Yore who invented the idea of knighthood. Yes, yes, that's right! Dragons had knights, Kings, princesses and queens long before men crawled out of the muck.
SULLY TARNISH
The Dragon and the Apprentice
When the hammer shall fall upon the dragon, a new king shall arise, and none shall stand before him.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Fire & Blood
Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.
CHINESE PROVERB
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Farthest Shore
How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?
JACK CAMPBELL
The Hidden Masters of Marandur
Isn't it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Slaying Dragons
Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us to amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls.
H. LEIGHTON DICKSON
Dragon of Ash & Stars
Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon's opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.
SULLY TARNISH
The Dragon and the Apprentice
If our heraldry is in the hammer, and the axe, and the awl, and the needle, we are to feel it a far higher honor than if in their place we could have dragons and helmets, and cross-bones and skulls.
S. H. TYNG
attributed, Day's Collacon
Kill the dragon, save the girl
He's got a trap down in the world
And you can have her for your bride
But this will cost your life
Love will open with the key
Drenched in blood and suffering
The greatest story ever heard
Kill the dragon, save the girl
KIKI SHEARD
"Kill the Dragon", Graceland
No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
In shallow holes, moles make fools of dragons.
CHINESE PROVERB
Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honahlee
Little Jackie paper loved that rascal puff
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff
PETER, PAUL & MARY
Puff the Magic Dragon
Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!
DOROTHY L. SAYERS
Catholic Tales and Christian Songs
When there are a hundred dragons in the sky, it is Hell Down and Hallow Fire. It is the winds of a hurricane and the roar of the storm. We blot out the sun, we blacken the clouds, we churn the sea like foam. It is a magnificent, terrifying sight.
H. LEIGHTON DICKSON
Dragon of Ash & Stars
It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Guards! Guards!