Dragons Quotes

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

“Come not between the dragon, and his wrath.”

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

“We are a restless breed, we dragons, never really satisfied; we love change for its own sake.”

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

“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.”

“Conquer the demon of jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.”

“No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.”

“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.”

“What I create is not from this world, because the people who need my help suffer from afflictions that science cannot treat.”

“The age of chivalry is past. … Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too many lances in vain ever to hope for their extirpation.”

“Lucy's sign is a Chinese dragon.
Oh, oh, she's got luck
The rhythm of life is the force of habit
Oh, oh, the rhythm of life.”

“O to be a dragon,
a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible.
Felicitous phenomenon!”

“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?”

“I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

“Advance our standards, set upon our foes Our ancient world of courage fair St. George Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons.”

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“Fairy tales do not give a 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.”

“I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighbourhood, intruding into my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fбfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril.”

“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”