Top 100 Quotes About Dwarves
#1. Legolas in 'Lord Of The Rings' was sent as a bridge from his people into the world of dwarves and humans and wizards and everything else.
Orlando Bloom
#2. Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. Not everyone is as stiff as the Dwarves," Ennion said, straightening back up and grinning. "I don't even think you can sit down and touch your toes."
"Really?" Cordon sat, pulled his knees up to his chest, and touched his toes. "It's not that hard.
Jack Lewis Baillot
#4. Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!" he said aloud. "Why don't they come and lend a hand?" Lo
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.
Emily Levine
#7. I know the name of Turkey's leading avant-guard publication. I know that John Quincy Adams married for money. I know that Bud Abbott was a double-crosser, that absentee ballots are very popular in Ireland, and that dwarves have prominent buttocks.
A. J. Jacobs
#8. What can I do for you, my dwarves?" he said. "Kili at your service!" said the one. "And Fili!" added the other; and they both swept off their blue hoods and bowed.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#9. All of ye, weapons down!" he yelled. Even the most unruly of dwarves would have at least acknowledged the order, if not followed it. He did not wish to sound racist, but non-dwarves were often very uncivilized.
Patrick Weekes
#10. Long has black powder been in the hands of dwarves alone.
Alas, winds ever change and nothing remains the same forever.
Lord Arrlo Salkeld
J.P. Ashman
#11. I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
George R R Martin
#12. Legend has it, dwarves were made to uncover all the riches hidden on earth. Not just golds or precious stones, but the beauty in people's hearts. -Eric
Lily Blake
#13. The fantasy world, the 'Game of Thrones' world, the forgotten realms worlds - they're the type of worlds I've always wanted to live in. Where vampires, dragons, dwarves and elves are real.
Robert Kazinsky
#14. I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'
Kimiko Glenn
#15. I shall think more kindly of dwarves after this. Killed the Great Goblin, killed the Great Goblin!" he chuckled fiercely to himself.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. I had spent hundreds of hours gazing out at the calm, conquered suburban landscape surrounding my school, silently yearning for the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse, a freak accident that would give me super powers, or perhaps the sudden appearance of a band of time-traveling kleptomaniac dwarves.
Ernest Cline
#17. Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#18. Mac, Phase: everyone here is of the we-don't-use-real-names-here mentality, so most of the time I feel like a really pilled up Snow White rolling around in the hood with seven drug-dealing dwarves - which, I don't know ... these things are never really as fun as they sound like they'd be.
Kris Kidd
#19. Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs that it gleamed ever in the dark if foes approached, and the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#20. Dwarves are very much of the earth and feel connected to the earth; considering gravity, their weight is low, but they're not small.
Peter Hambleton
#21. I'd been chased by Valkyries. I'd been chased by elves with firearms. I'd been chased by dwarves with a tank. Now, lucky me, I got to be chased by giants with giant bowling balls.
Rick Riordan
#22. Compared with the person who had decorated and furnished the place, the Archduke Ferdinand had been blessed with the taste of a troupe of Turkish circus dwarves.
Philip Kerr
#23. Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. Bake and toast 'em, fry and roast 'em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#25. The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. "Those are for dissecting dwarves and children," The Saw Man said, gravely.
Jackie Trippier Holt
#26. As dwarves, we are committed to wiping out evil wherever it occurs and we shall not tire in our duty.
Markus Heitz
#27. Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction - especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements - a bad name.
Jane Lindskold
#28. If anyone had asked Royce Melborn what he hated most at that moment, he would've said dogs. Dogs and dwarves topped his list, both equally despised for having so much in common - each was short, vicious, and inexcusably hairy.
Michael J. Sullivan
#29. Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit - may the hair on his toes never fall out!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#30. They broke the hug and shared a tremendous kiss, all sloppy and loud, full of fun and full of lust, as only dwarves could do.
R.A. Salvatore
#31. And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.
Markus Heitz
#32. I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.
Richard C. Armitage
#33. I was just fighting dwarves then hit my knee really hard.
Kristen Stewart
#34. There will only ever be 13 dwarves in 'The Hobbit' - and I was one of them. If I had my time again, would I do it? Yeah, I would.
James Nesbitt
#35. Dwarves' tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#36. I imagined that this was what Snow White must've felt like when she woke up in the presence of the seven dwarves.
Seven hovering beards.
Seven sets of bewildered eyes.
Seven inquisitive expressions - partly suspicious, partly amused.
Penny Reid
#37. The big rippled sheets of glass were taken out of their sacking and lowered from the back of the wagon, and for a few giddy moments a troupe of rubbery dwarves and etiolated giants shimmied and shivered in those depthless caskets. of light.
John Banville
#38. Take care of her? She isn't Snow White, and we aren't the seven dwarves. She
T.S. Joyce
#39. Oh shit, I thought, if this isn't the Low King of the Dwarves then I'm the President of the Cricklewood Branch of the Women's Institute.
Ben Aaronovitch
#40. Are we not all shaped by our experiences? Are we not the sum of our memories? The sages of the dwarves say that just as the thousand blows of a hammer shape a blade, so to do the thousand experiences of a man shape him.
Jonathan Moeller
#41. Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
#42. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.
Jedediah Bila
#43. His sword, Sting, Bilbo hung over his fireplace, and his coat of marvellous mail, the gift of the Dwarves from the Dragon-hoard, he lent to a museum, to the Michel Delving Mathom-house in fact.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#45. But fairest of all was the great white gem, which the dwarves had found beneath the roots of the Mountain, the Heart of the Mountain, the Arkenstone of Thrain.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#46. I gave the dwarves an arrogant look, like, Yeah, that's right. I've got a talking disco sword and you don't.
Rick Riordan
#47. By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ...
Gary Larson
#48. We like the dark," said all the dwarves. 'Dark for dark business! There are many hours before dawn.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#49. When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.
Patrick Rothfuss
#50. We have books and films where mice and hobbits and dwarves and children can save the world, and that's perfectly acceptable. But a 120lb woman save the galaxy? YOU GO TOO FAR, SIR.
Ash Gray
#51. I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
Nick Helm
#52. Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#53. The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks.
Craig Ferguson
#54. He tolerated his fellow Englishmen, but the Welsh were cabbage-farting dwarves, the Scots were scabby arse-suckers, and the French were shriveled turds.
Bernard Cornwell
#56. Smaller plates discourage gluttony. But so does dining with dwarves.
Jarod Kintz
#57. Dwarves sat on stoops, clapping and cheering as we ran by. A few of them recorded videos of us on uniquely crafted smartphones. I figured our attempted getaway would go viral on the Dwarven Internet, famous among Internets.
Rick Riordan
#58. Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
Peter Dinklage
#59. Dragons, to my way of thinking, are just another 'race' of sapient characters. We see lots of elves, dwarves, orcs, goblins, giants and, of course, dragons.
Robin Hobb
#60. They say 'Chaos is the ally of the desperate man,' and I reckon it applies to dwarves and snot-nosed boys too. Let's test is at the front gate, shall we?
Gillian Bronte Adams
#61. Gandalf sat at the head of the party with the thirteen dwarves all round: and Bilbo sat on a stool at the fireside,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#62. Ken steepled his fingers and gazed thoughtfully up at the ceiling. 'Dwarves have done very well for us in primetime.
Melissa Jo Peltier
#64. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
Rod Serling
#65. We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.
Alan Stern
#66. A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
Seneca The Younger
#67. The anvil is hard so that it can help shape the blade. If life were easy, we would all be soft and misshapen shards of metal, tossed into a bin.
J.M. Bush
#69. A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
George Herbert
#70. The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.
H.G.Wells
#72. 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
#73. The woman's cause is man's. They rise or sink Together. / Dwarf'd or godlike, bound or free; miserable, / How shall men grow? - Let her be / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#74. Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.
Richard Brautigan
#75. As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#77. If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.
Ralphie May
#79. Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way of haggling, and he'd beaten down the riverman to a decent price for conveying himself and Anvar to Lankarn.
Ian Livingstone
#80. But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
Abdellatif Laabi
#81. You're not fat unless you're bigger outwards than upwards. Anyway, better fat than tall.
T.J. Dixon
#82. Friend, we are well met indeed. I think we are a pair of fools and that we should hasten to Nildren's Peak, where I shall buy ye such a dinner as even your great frame will find sufficient. And then we shall see who can drink the other under the table. Is that good by ye?
Ian Livingstone
#83. I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware ... Beware ...
Anne Sexton
#84. From dwarf tossing to drug taking: The legislator has no place in voluntary exchanges between consenting adults, as dodgy and as dangerous as these might be.
Ilana Mercer
#85. Very, very slowly, the dwarf remnants of what was once our mighty sun will cool and dim, until it embarks on its final metamorphosis, gradually solidifying into a crystal of extraordinary rigidity. Eventually it will fade out completely, merging quietly into the blackness of space.
Paul Davies
#86. Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#87. If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall.
Rod Serling
#89. 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
#90. We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.
Demetri Martin
#91. By Duraden, I have trolls dancing in my head this morning!' Stubble grumbled, screwing his eyes into a squint at the bright morning light.
Carl Sargent
#92. Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?
Mason Cooley
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.
Terry Pratchett
#98. Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he was officially revolted by himself.
Cassandra Clare
#99. 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
#100. Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.
John Updike
