Top 100 Quotes About Dragons
#1. Librarianship is a form of heroism. It's just not as flashy as swords and dragons.
Seanan McGuire
#2. The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.
Madeleine L'Engle
#3. I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.
Lev Grossman
#4. I'm an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.
Andrew Motion
#5. The sun had now set the sky ablaze with glorious hues of orange. She squinted to focus in the brilliance and thoughts of distant fire breathing dragons lit up her imagination once again.
Kim Cormack
#6. I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
Malala Yousafzai
#7. Harmony turned on whatever Dragons use for afterburners and swooped down.
Bryan Fields
#8. You're used to difficult women. To struggle. Perhaps you like it when they give you a bad time." "Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable. ... Do you mind if I unbutton my collar? It seems to be pressing on an artery.
Saul Bellow
#9. If you count your eggs now, you'll be disappointed by the dragons that come out!
Christian Clason
#10. Great ... So neither of us knows anything about dragons ... We're so going to die!
L.R.W. Lee
#11. He grinned at me again, and the butterflies in my stomach turned into dragons and laid waste to my innards.
T.J. Klune
#12. To get back to the original subject, most dragons prefer to be friends at a distance. Occasionally meet where the edges of our territories join - that sort of thing. Chat, exchange news, perhaps play a round of the riddle game, then go our separate ways.
Mercedes Lackey
#13. Men are men." Whitebeard replied. "Dragons are dragons." Ser Jorah snorted his disdain. "How profund
George R R Martin
#14. Our marriage has always been an island, a safe place where sea-dragons and monstrous creatures can't reach us. Now we're letting them in, gnashing teeth and all, and we are failing to protect each other.
Nina Lane
#15. I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown
#16. I'll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn't exist. That's a hard lesson for a boy to learn.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. The world seemed quite willing to accept misunderstood artists, misunderstood thieves, and even peasants who dreamed of royalty. But nobody knew what to do with a misunderstood philologist. Other than run him out of town for bringing the dragons down on them.
Brandon Sanderson
#18. A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
George R R Martin
#19. Thought folk were buried there?" "They are! And their treasures! So the dragon guards the hoard. That's what dragons do. Bury gold and you hatch a dragon, see?
Bernard Cornwell
#20. I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
J. Tillman
#21. You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Slay the dragon - though I really think dragons get a bad rap - kiss the princess, or the frog, defeat the bad witch.
Nora Roberts
#22. He'd won. There'd be dragons again. And a king again. Not like the old kings. A king who would do what he was told.
Terry Pratchett
#23. The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. I'd done the impossible. I'd spoken with dragons. I'd survived. I'd kept the dragons from attacking my friends because I was a very frightening tiny person with little regard for her own life.
Jodi Meadows
#25. It may seem like the dragons tormenting you are bigger and fiercer than those lurking in your neighbor's yard, but this is an illusion. We all face mighty dragons at home in some form.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. Fire-lizard dance on wing
To the raucous song I sing.
Fire-lizrad wheel and turn,
Show me how the dragons learn.
Anne McCaffrey
#27. I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart.
Julian Fellowes
#28. But how can we know that dragons did not exist? We have never actually BEEN to the Dark Ages.
Cressida Cowell
#30. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#31. Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.
Terry Pratchett
#32. My favorite video game of all time is called 'Black Tiger'. It's a Capcom Dungeons and Dragons game from 1987. I have the actual arcade version sitting in my office.
Ernest Cline
#33. No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected.
"Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs
or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!
Patricia C. Wrede
#34. It's a dragon." "It's not a dragon," I said. "There's no such thing as dragons." "Look at it!" she hissed at me. "It's right there! Look at the huge Goddamn dragon!
Patrick Rothfuss
#35. Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.
China Mieville
#36. To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
Frank McCourt
#37. I grew up as a fanboy and a giant nerd, and I mean that in the most loving sense. I loved playing 'Dungeons and Dragons.'
Derek Mears
#38. And King Harren learned that thick walls and high towers are small use against dragons," the tale always ended. "For dragons fly.
George R R Martin
#39. The dragons of twentieth-century life are ignorance, incompetence, slackness and disloyalty, she said.
Kate Grenville
#40. She nodded shyly, still watching him with her huge blue eyes. Those eyes made him want to slay dragons for her.
Anna Zaires
#41. My dragons took long naps on their chains and forgot to frighten me with their fiery roar.
Sarina Bowen
#42. Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.
Mercedes Lackey
#43. Woman?" She chuckled. "Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man." Dany met his stare. "I am Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons, khaleesi to Drogo's riders, and queen of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
George R R Martin
#44. It's worth noting here that dragons are magical creatures. It's also worth following that up with a big, fat, duh.
Daniel Younger
#45. When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.
Sharon Kay Penman
#46. And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened.
Cressida Cowell
#47. What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.
Steven Pressfield
#48. Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.
Saul Bellow
#49. Well, except she didn't tell me about the stealth RainWing bodyguards she put on me. That was pretty hilarious. Everyone should suddenly have the air turn into seven bright purple dragons yelling hysterically whenever she gets attacked.
Tui T. Sutherland
#50. I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it.
Jeremy Shada
#51. Harper, treat your words with care
For they may cause joy or despair
Sing your songs of health and love
Of dragons flaming from above
Anne McCaffrey
#52. I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. ( ... ) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.
George R R Martin
#53. Dragons," I said. "They're hoarders. They keep the things they think are pretty. Gold and jewels. In this case, Justin. To each his own, I guess.
T.J. Klune
#54. 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
#55. Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#56. My mother taught me to be polite to dragons. Particularly polite, I mean; she taught me to be ordinary polite to everyone ... but dragons are a special case. -Daystar (Talking to Dragons)
Patricia C. Wrede
#57. To the girl
who reads by flashlight
who sees dragons in the clouds
who feels most alive in worlds that never were
who knows magic is real
who dreams
This is for you
Meagan Spooner
#58. Itinerant killers of basilisks; travelling slayers of dragons and vodniks!
Andrzej Sapkowski
#59. Polite fictions are very important for dragons.
Bard Bloom
#60. I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Alan Moore
#61. All kneel for Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Queen of Meereen, Queen of the Andals and the Rhoynar and the First Men, Khaleesi of Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Shackles, and Mother of Dragons, Missandei called.
Anonymous
#62. A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.
R.A. Salvatore
#63. So, in a fit of pique, I came up with the silliest thing I could think of, and handed the book in under the title Bowling for Dragons
Patricia C. Wrede
#64. Uh, oh. This room is big but not big enough to share with angry, smoking dragons.
Eunice Korczak
#65. I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!
Georgette Heyer
#66. Most species of dragons had retired or, mistaken for dinosaurs, collectively hung their bones in museums, waiting in the wings for just the right time to reemerge, to scorch schools and char church parking lots.
Tom Cardamone
#67. So far as I can tell, 'good dragon' is just another name for coldblooded sociopath," he said. "No friends, no trust, no love. Why would I ever want to live like that? It's not like any of you good dragons are happy.
Rachel Aaron
#68. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#69. Let me love you, Ysolde. Let this happen. Since I was reborn, I have lived every moment in despair because I lost you. Let me worship you now as I've longed to do all those years.
Baltic, Love In The Time of Dragons
Katie MacAlister
#70. In the beginning, there were dragons; proud, fience,and independent. Their scale were like gems and all who gazed upon them despaired, for their beauty was great and terrible..!
Christopher Paolini
#71. When you're fully healed," she said sternly, then spoiled it with a silvery, velvet-coated laugh. "Oh, Lucivar, the dragons who live on the Fyreborn Islands are going to love you. You not only have wings, you're big enough to wave whomp.
Anne Bishop
#72. She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.
George R R Martin
#73. She waits for me at windows and buys me dragons. There are reasons we walk this earth, I'm coming to realize mine.
Kristen Ashley
#74. Fuck your lineage," said Gerris. "The dragons won't care about your blood, except maybe how it tastes. You cannot tame a dragon with a history lesson. They're monsters, not maesters. Quent, is this truly what you want to do?
George R R Martin
#76. Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#77. God is no White Knight who charges into the world to pluck us like distressed damsels from the jaws of dragons, or diseases. God chooses to become present to and through us. It is up to us to rescue one another.
Nancy Mairs
#78. Don't change the subject," Blaze snapped. "You said dragons? And untie me, damn it. My wrists hurt." He shrugged, completely ignoring her complaints. "Of course there are dragons. Where you think the myths come from?
Sara King
#79. You think me noble?" She rolled to her side facing him. "Am I saint-like? Do I slay dragons and hang the moon as well?
Jessica Fortunato
#80. To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.
Loren Eiseley
#81. The Realists
HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?
W.B.Yeats
#82. Do not run from a battle with dragons; rather turn and face it. For even if you die, you die in glory.
J.J. Thompson
#83. If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct
unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.
Camille Paglia
#84. Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?
Robin Hobb
#85. Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens.
Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand.
Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered.
Vivian Vande Velde
#86. He can make the dry parched ground of my soul to become a pool and my thirsty barren heart as springs of water. Yes he can make this habitation of dragons this heart which is so full of abominable lusts and fiery temptations to be a place of bounty and fruitfulness unto Himself
John Owen
#87. If dragons were real, then in all likelihood they were not graceful, high-chested, noble creatures; rather they would have been dirty, ugly, reptilian and mean.
Matthew Reilly
#88. I realized that the job of a hero is not to save the galaxy, or rescue princesses, or slay all the dragons. That may be part of it, but in the end, a hero only has one job, and that's to make himself unnecessary.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#89. I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#90. My friends, it is wise to nourish the soul, otherwise you will breed dragons and devils in your heart.
C. G. Jung
#91. We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the galaxy, is our testament to life.
Our dragons, in the sky, came from the stars. They brought many new things to explore.
From the Blessings of the Father Dragon, a poem
L'Poni Baldwin
#92. I had the best image of several dragons sitting on a couch crying into a microphone ...
Adrienne Kress
#93. I didn't think they even existed. They're in stories, in legends, and we have Dragon Eye jewels and dragon threads and dragon this and that, but no one ever seriously thought these things came from actual dragons. That would have been... ridiculous. - Skulduggery
Derek Landy
#94. How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?
Jack Campbell
#95. It's very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs - dinosaurs are nature's Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It's not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat Buicks. It's that they are real.
Robert T. Bakker
#96. My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.
Kerry King
#97. I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.
Jim Rash
#98. They also found the cocooned dragons. They had no idea that was what they were, of course. They thought ... who knows what they thought at first? Perhaps they seemed like massive sections of tree trunks. So they refer to it: wizardwood.
Robin Hobb
#99. Some roads you shouldn't go down. Because maps used to say there were dragons here. Now they don't. But that don't mean the dragons aren't there.
Noah Hawley
#100. Angel, shiny armor just means the knight never went to battle." He kissed my temple. "And I'd fight dragons for you.
Nichole Chase
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