Top 100 Dwarf Quotes
#1. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
Meg White
#2. Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like ... little person, or vertically challenged,or-"
"I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf!
Rick Riordan
#3. There was a very old-looking dwarf on the step with a white beard and a scarlet hood; and he too hopped inside as soon as the door was open, just as if he had been invited. "I see they have begun to arrive already," he said when he caught sight of
J.R.R. Tolkien
#4. The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.
Thomas Paine
#5. Still, we made it back to the corn mill, and even though it felt like a dwarf with a chisel had taken up permanent residence in my frontal lobe, I managed to stagger all the way back to the house.
Rachel Hawkins
#6. Make no mistake, dwarf. I fought for you, but I do not love you'
'It was your blade I needed' Tyrion said, 'not your love.
George R R Martin
#7. Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.
William Matthews
#8. When I lie down to love,
old dwarf heart shakes her head.
Like an imbecile she was born old.
Anne Sexton
#9. What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!
Craig Charles
#10. She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face, and stuck his tongue out, and the girl began to cry.
'What did you do to her?' Duck asked.
'I blew her a kiss. All girls cry when I kiss them.
George R R Martin
#12. Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature.
Erik Bundy
#13. Actually, Laurence is hardly ever home; this is the first I've seen him in weeks. Which can only mean one thing: Red Dwarf marathon.
Charlie Jane Anders
#14. Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.
Molly Ivins
#15. But why did you upgrade me?" "Because you're not a skinny dwarf." "Is that an insult?" "Is it? Would you like to be a skinny dwarf? Because even though you're acting like Grumpy -
Kristan Higgins
#16. Pwent fell back and began to choke on the command. By his estimation, a dwarf king ordering a subject to go take a bath was roughly the equivalent of a human king telling his knights to go out and kill babies.
R.A. Salvatore
#17. Stupid king sees himself as a giant, wise man sees himself as a dwarf, because stupid king's universe is his little golden throne and wise man's golden throne is this whole universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.
John Bellairs
#20. Also usually employed one or more resident physicians, barbers, priests, painters, musicians, minstrels, secretaries and copyists, an astrologer, a jester, and a dwarf, besides pages and squires.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#21. The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.
Robert Fortune
#22. Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
Peter Dinklage
#23. Tossing a smile my way I nodded back to her. Veronica had come home. Somewhere in a thirty-six dollar a night shack a Nazi dwarf was making it with two call girls. Los Angeles was one hell of a city.
David Louden
#24. Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail; A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#25. And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen ... "
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact ... human?
C.S. Lewis
#26. That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#28. Yes, the rich. And that's their misfortune. You see, if you keep adding copper bit by bit to a child's food, you prevent the growth of its bones, and he'll be a dwarf; and if from his youth up you poison a man with gold, you deaden his soul. Once,
Maxim Gorky
#30. The undeniable feeling that, as you castigate a troll, he's rubbing his Red Dwarf mouse pad against his crotch and sighing, Angry liberal women typing at me. Oh yah. That's how I like it.
Caitlin Moran
#31. Get you gone, you dwarf,
You minimus of hindering knotgrass made,
You bead, you acorn!
William Shakespeare
#32. I have a friend who says, 'The world doesn't need another angry dwarf!'
Peter Dinklage
#33. her, then make her miserable so she'll leave you," the dwarf said. "That's what I would do.
Dawn Napier
#34. Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.
C.S. Lewis
#35. This is folly, Tyrion,' declared Lord Tywin. 'Speak to the matter at hand. You are not on trial for being a dwarf.
'That is where you err, my lord. I have been on trial for being a dwarf my entire life.
George R R Martin
#36. I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.
Stephen Hunter
#38. What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. stood still and stared at them. 'Why do you stand gaping there?' cried the dwarf, and his ashen-grey face became copper-red with rage. He was still cursing when a loud growling
Jacob Grimm
#40. Your brother Jaime keeps losing battles. He gave Sansa an angry look, as if it were her fault. He's been taken by the Starks and we've lost Riverrun and now her stupid brother is calling himself a king.
The dwarf smiled crookedly. All sorts of people are calling themselves kings these days.
George R R Martin
#41. Maybe we've been taking nova precautions for a red dwarf.
Hal Clement
#42. Meaning to ask, where'd all them scratches come from? Lookin like you had yourself a knife fight with a dwarf, aye?
Stacia Kane
#43. I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself.
Robertson Davies
#44. If you do something and it proves to be a success, then people go 'get him to do that type of thing again, but only slightly different'. Either you do that or you go 'No! I want to play a leprous, lesbian dwarf from Guatemala!' But those parts just aren't coming to me.
Jack Davenport
#45. She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider.
Janie always hated Bashful.
Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.
Lisa McMann
#46. JULIA: Oldest daughter of Julia and Agrippa. Owner of the smallest dwarf in Rome. Exiled in AD 8.
Tom Holland
#47. And the Dwarf, hearing the names given in his own ancient tongue, looked up and met her eyes; and it seemed to him that he looked suddenly into the heart of an enemy and saw there love and understanding. Wonder came into his face, and then he smiled in answer.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#48. Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.
John Updike
#49. A drow and a dwarf, a dwarf and a drow, a hunnerd times better'n a fox and a cow! Bwahaha! Athrogate added with unbridled enthusiasm.
R.A. Salvatore
#50. This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf ... Cupid.
William Shakespeare
#51. Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.' Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all. (Tyrion Lannister)
George R R Martin
#52. This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
William Shakespeare
#53. In Cintra, as she remembered, an attractive man was one whose head reached the ceiling, whose shoulders were as broad as a doorway, who swore like a dwarf, roared like a buffalo and stank at thirty paces of horses, sweat and beer, regardless of what time of day or night it was.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#54. Don't be ridiculous, man," said Ridcully, "there's no such thing as dwarf smuggling."
"Yeah? Then what's that you've got there?"
"I'm a giant," said Casanunda.
"Giants are a lot bigger."
"I've been ill.
Terry Pratchett
#55. We will have it tanned and stuffed and sell it for a fortune. A dwarf's cock has magical powers."
"I have been telling all the women that for years.
George R R Martin
#56. As actors, we have a philosophy, which is this: great fun. That has transmitted itself into the dwarf philosophy of life. We're up for a brawl, we're up for a bloody good feed, and if you've got food, well, we share what we've got, and so should you.
John Callen
#57. Topper had once heard a saying, "If you set out on the path to revenge, first dig two graves." But things worked a little differently in the savage dwarf's head. So, he had remembered it like this, "If you set out on the path to revenge, first pour two glasses." And that's exactly what he did.
Patrick E. McLean
#58. Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.
Thomas Sowell
#60. The girl's called Jill," said the Owl, as loud as it could. "What's that?" said the Dwarf. "The girls are all killed! I don't believe a word of it. What girls? Who killed 'em?
C.S. Lewis
#61. This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
R.A. Salvatore
#62. Snub end of a dismal year,
deep in the dwarf orchard,
The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,
I stand in the dark and answer to
My life, this shirt I want to take off,
which is on fire ...
Charles Wright
#63. Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. I found the word dwarf really offensive, but there was not one better synonym in the dictionary. Midget? Pygmy? Manikin? Homunculus? They all sounded worse to me, so I had to accept my fate.
Nick Nwaogu
#65. Bob exploded. 'There is no such thing as a casual conversation with my mother. Every single word will be twisted recognition until before you know it you're playing Russian roulette in a wind tunnel with a psychotic dwarf, having wagered your birthright for a piece of cheese ...
Meg Rosoff
#66. When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.
Arthur C. Clarke
#67. He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.
Flannery O'Connor
#68. In the following Appendices, especially A to D, see the note at the end of the Prologue. The section A III, Durin's Folk, was probably derived from Gimli the Dwarf, who maintained his friendship
J.R.R. Tolkien
#69. You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.
Benjamin Franklin Fairless
#70. Artemis and Holly stood together in their underwear, gingerly locking fingers. They had crossed space and time together, weathered rebellions and tangled with demented despots. Coughed blood, lost digits, inhaled dwarf fumes and swapped eyeballs, yet they found holding hands awkward.
Eoin Colfer
#71. A dwarf who can't get the hang of metal? That must be pretty unique."
"Pretty rare, sir. But I was quite good at alchemy.."
"Guild member?"
"Not any more, sir."
"Oh? How did you leave the guild?"
"Through the roof, sir. But I'm pretty certain I know what I did wrong.
Terry Pratchett
#72. Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
Gerald Morris
#73. You said there's been another murder?"
"At the Dwarf Bread Museum. Someone killed Mr. Hopkinson with his own bread!"
"Made him eat it?"
"Hit him with it, sir," said Carrot reproachfully. "Battle Bread, sir.
Terry Pratchett
#75. In 1775 Asia accounted for 80 per cent of the world economy. The combined economies of India and China alone represented two-thirds of global production. In comparison, Europe was an economic dwarf.
Yuval Noah Harari
#76. We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
Tariq Ali
#77. The less courage you have, the more dwarf you shall be; the more courage you have, the more giant you shall be!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking ... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs ... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.
Graham Stuart Thomas
#80. Here were two undeniable truths in the Realms: It was very easy to overestimate a drow and even easier to underestimate a dwarf.
R.A. Salvatore
#81. The dwarf, the evil counselor, the twisted little monkey demon. I'm all that stands between them and chaos.
George R R Martin
#82. Mr. Anderson:Well, maybe we all should call it a night. Congrats to the happy couples. Will there be wedding bells soon?
SnowGirl:Definitely. I mean, if you help a guy kill a dwarf, he should marry you.
Alex Flinn
#83. Admiral Naismith," said Quinn stiffly, "is not a dwarf. He's nearly five feet tall. And I am not 'in love' with him, you low-minded twit; I merely admire his brilliance. Professionally.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#84. Still, I take your point. I have a deal to learn about being a dwarf. Perhaps you will be good enough to teach me, in between the jousting and the pig-riding.
George R R Martin
#85. A dwarf will fight for honor, but a man will kill for pride."
Auron thought for a moment. "What's the difference?"
"Honor is how others see you. Pride is how you see yourself.
E.E. Knight
#86. Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
Mason Cooley
#87. I feel like Snow White because now I have a bunch of little dwarf friends who love me. I may not know how Scout's overalls feel but I think I know how Snow White's Shoes feel because now I know why Snow White was happy.
Kathryn Erskine
#88. We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.
Demetri Martin
#89. When you see a giant, make sure it isn't a dwarf standing in a favourable light. Thus we approach 'the mystery of Jack the Ripper.
Bruce Robinson
#90. My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf
or Giant
in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
C.S. Lewis
#91. If we could ever competitively, at a cheap rate, get fresh water from saltwater, ..(this) would be in the long-range interests of humanity which could really dwarf any other scientific accomplishments.
John F. Kennedy
#92. There must have been at least fifty or sixty corners in the main room of the dwarf's house,' the layout artist Tom Codrick lamented, 'because different units were working on the same room and had basic thoughts about what the room was like or the shape of it.
Michael Barrier
#93. Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?"
The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.
John Connolly
#94. One of those was occupied by a dwarf. Clean-shaved and pink-cheeked, with a mop of chestnut hair, a heavy brow, and a squashed nose, he perched on a high stool with a wooden spoon in hand, contemplating a bowl of purplish gruel with red-rimmed eyes. Ugly little bastard, Tyrion thought. The
George R R Martin
#95. I am a Hobbit, like I said at the beginning of the book. That doesn't mean that at times, many times, I wasn't a Dwarf, an Orc, even a bit Gollum-ish or Wraith-ish. But deep down, what I want to be is a Hobbit. Do you?
Steve Bivans
#96. Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.
John Connolly
#97. A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
Laurence Sterne
#99. But for the most part, magic tends to end in explosions, or tears, or with you flat on your back in the middle of nowhere, feeling like a tiny dwarf is mining for diamonds inside your head. Okay, so maybe that last bit was just me.
Rachel Hawkins
#100. A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
George Herbert
