Top 100 Quotes About Elves: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Elves

#1. Perhaps no one religion contains all the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. Or perhaps the elves are right and there are no gods. But how can I know for sure?" - Pg 479 Brisingr

Christopher Paolini

#2. Humans don't leap buildings. Stuntmen with harnesses do. And won't my crashing eight stories to the ground be detrimental to the mission? The dark elves will swarm me and take me hostage instantly."
"That might be true, but you're not going to fall," he said.

Amanda Carlson

#3. A night that began with mind-reading a grateful crustacean and ended with drunken elves would be a night to remember.

Karen Joy Fowler

#4. Santa is like a queen bee. All the elves are his drones, who exist to feed him royal jelly, which I guess would be milk and cookies. If an elf escapes and eats royal cookies, it will turn into another Santa. That's what all those mall Santas are. They're trying to start their own festive colonies.

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. Elves know a lot and are wondrous folk for news and know what is going on among the peoples of the land as quick as water flows, or quicker.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#6. Elves don't shimmer

David Rangel

#7. So what's with the crown?" Daphne asked.
Puck's eyes grew wide. "I'm the Prince of Fairies. Emperor of Pixies, Brownies, Hobgoblins, Elves and Gnomes. King of Tricksters and Prank-Players, spiritual leader to juvenile delinquents, layabouts and bad apples.

Michael Buckley

#8. When in doubt, know your way out, I always say."
"I thought you always said, 'When in doubt, blame the dark elves.'"
"Well, yeah, that too."
Oberon said.

Kevin Hearne

#9. The elves knew the true names of these rivers,' said Skifr, who'd made a kind of bed among the cargo to drape herself on. 'We call them Divine and Denied because those are as close as our clumsy human tongues can come.

Joe Abercrombie

#10. Wonderful folk, Elves, sir! Wonderful!' 'They are,' said Frodo. 'Do you like them still, now you have had a closer view?

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

Robert Herrick

#12. As soon as the first piece of foliage came within blade's reach, my student started frantically swinging the machete like he was defending his virtue from a trove of drunken, handsy woodland elves. 'I feel like I'm in the movie Predator,' he said as he decapitated a flower.

Michael Gurnow

#13. Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.

W. H. Auden

#14. The leader had a beard and was wearing a caftan that looked as if it had been sewn by elves on hash.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Elves apparently had a short childhood. Not like witches, who seemed to take forever to grow up, according to Jenks.

Kim Harrison

#16. And now about the cauldron sing
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.

William Shakespeare

#17. I don't think we have enough imaginary creatures in cinema. It seems like we're stuck with zombies, vampires, and werewolves. We should have everything. We should have minotaurs. We should have elves. We should have mermen in popular culture. But instead we've stuck with vampires.

Neil Jordan

#18. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.

Michael D. O'Brien

#19. So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups claimed were made by little elves wearing bell caps in their workshop at the North Pole actually had labels on them saying MADE IN JAPAN.

Jeannette Walls

#20. Mythology was littered with people who meddled in the affairs of elves and fairies and were never again heard from.

Thomm Quackenbush

#21. Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible - though very unlikely - that our whole world is controlled by elves.

Jerry A. Coyne

#22. Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Henry Timrod

#23. Go not to the Elves for counsel,
for they will say both no and yes.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
for advice is a dangerous gift,
even from the wise to the wise,
and all courses may run ill.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#24. It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know ... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

Terence McKenna

#25. Well, anyway, this'll be easier than knocking an elf out of a tree. Trust me.'
'How many elves have you knocked out of trees, Stubble?'
'Duraden's bones! Have ye never heard of a figure of speech?

Ian Livingstone

#26. Don't let the bad elves get you.

Haruki Murakami

#27. 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

#28. Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

Neil Gaiman

#29. We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,
We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,
And we do not fear its light,
Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,
For therein lies our power.
-- Blood Oath of the Iron Elves

Chris Evans

#30. Like Santa's elves," Percy said. "Except evil. And metal. And really loud.

Rick Riordan

#31. But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

Dave Eggers

#32. She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.

Kim Harrison

#33. Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld: the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trolley folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy.

Terry Pratchett

#34. There are little fairies outside," I breathed, forcing out the words through quick breaths. His brows drew together in a way that wasn't scary but, instead, surprised and he replied, "Those aren't fairies, wife, those are elves." Elves? Elves.

Kristen Ashley

#35. 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

#36. Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#37. I'm reminded of a book my father used to read me," she said. "A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.

Lemony Snicket

#38. Let's face it: most of our children believe that God is happy if they're "good for goodness' sake." We've transformed the holy, terrifying, magnificent, and loving God of the Bible into Santa and his elves.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#39. I was a massive Tolkien fan. 'The Hobbit' was ... my favorite book as a little girl, and the Silvan Elves were my favorite characters in the book.

Evangeline Lilly

#40. O! Tril-lil-lil-lolly the valley is jolly, ha! ha! -Elves of Rivendell

J.R.R. Tolkien

#41. Then the elves put thongs on him, and shut him in one of the inmost caves with strong wooden doors, and left him. They gave him food and drink, plenty of both, if not very fine; for Wood-elves were not goblins,

J.R.R. Tolkien

#42. All those poor elves I haven't set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren't enough hats!

J.K. Rowling

#43. Elves, pixies, gnomes- the Moomins, Chorlton and the Wheelies, SpongeBob SquarePants- they all tried to invade you at some point.

Jacqueline Rayner

#44. In those days the Great Enemy, of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the North, and the Elves of the West coming back to Middle-earth made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen; and the fathers of Men aided the Elves.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#45. Who cares about elves? If they spent more time being men, instead of acting like fairies dancin' an' prancin' in the woods, they might know how to protect themselves!

Tiger Hebert

#46. All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

Lewis Carroll

#47. On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

John Milton

#48. You better go. The cool-as-shit elves are waiting.

Kristen Ashley

#49. Most fantasy is incredibly derivative of Tolkien, so when you read a lot of fantasy, it's really just elves and gnomes, and it all goes back to Tolkien.

John Orloff

#50. The Great among these spirits the Elves name the Valar, the Powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#51. 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

#52. Many of the snowflakes, he had told her, were tiny elves who kissed your face with icy lips before melting on your warm skin.

Cornelia Funke

#53. I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.

Charles De Lint

#54. If you read 'Lord of the Rings' and dismiss it as a lie because it has orcs and elves, you're missing the whole point of the story. If children don't have to be concerned about strangers because there's no such thing as a Big Bad Wolf dressed like Granny, you're missing the point.

Doug TenNapel

#55. Snowball just leads elves on, elves and Santas. He is playing a dangerous game.

David Sedaris

#56. The armored infantry was Santa Claus, the battle was out Christmas. What else for the elves to do on Christmas Eve but to let their hair down and drink a a little eggnog.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#57. Long are the lives of elves' he said.

Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.

William King

#58. Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

John Milton

#59. 'No Hands' art goes straight back to Warhol. He was the first to use elves.

Tom Wolfe

#60. The off-the-record reaction of the First Human Contact Team upon meeting the di'Taykan had been, "Holy fuk, they're elves!" To the horror of right thinking xenoanthropologists everywhere, the name stuck.

Tanya Huff

#61. I could say "Elves" to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself.

Robert Frost

#62. Geralt finished his mug of herb tea, grimacing dreadfully. He valued and liked the settled elves for their intelligence, calm reserve and sense of humour, but he couldn't understand or share their taste in food or drink.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#63. 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

#64. You are a force rarely born to a world, something we Elves call leinah thaniel, the Song that sings all Songs, the Mirror that shows all Mirrors, the Change that changes everything.

C.L. Wilson

#65. Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you.
May the stars shine upon your faces!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#66. Maybe he was the anti-Santa, of the South Pole, and he was going to show them where the elves made lumps of coal for Anti-Christmas.

Lev Grossman

#67. Devic Magic
Woodland sprites, elves and nymphs
Waltz in time take a glimpse
Fairies hide the forest wit
Mushrooms fly, agarics hit

William O'Brien

#68. Mordak has the mental clarity to recognise that when it comes to running a bureaucracy, Elves can achieve a degree of blinkered ruthlessness that makes goblins look like teddy-bears.

Tom Holt

#69. The ass to end all asses," I said, unable to stop myself. "The Holy Grail of asses. If we lived in a world with fairies and elves, there would be epic quests to go get that ass. I wanted to bite it.

T.J. Klune

#70. We held certain truths to be self-evident, but those truths were that elves hate orcs and wizards can't wear metal armor.

Austin Grossman

#71. Ho, hm, well, we could, you know! You do not know, perhaps, how strong we are. Maybe you have heard of Trolls? They are mighty strong. But Trolls are only counterfeits, made by the Enemy in the Great Darkness, in mockery of Ents, as Orcs were of Elves.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#72. Elves are cool, man.

Orlando Bloom

#73. The potted plant could have been knocked over intentionally or accidentally, or maybe one of the animals that lived here broke it somehow.
I thought of the impossibilities and improbabilities. Jack would say that elves had broken it when they came to take me back to the wood.

Marta Acosta

#74. ...no elves or CPAs or other mythological creatures appeared to do my paperwork in the interim

Mira Grant

#75. If Sara chooses me, accepts me, he thought, I'm going to propose to her right away. And give her everything I'm capable of giving - every single thing. Before I get lost in a dark forest. Before the bad elves grab me.

Haruki Murakami

#76. Okay, yes, I am a bit of a geek. I enjoy escapist entertainment. Listen, I'd rather watch a bunch of elves and wizards trying to save Middle Earth from the forces of evil than, I dunno, the Bachelorette or the Real Housewives of wherever getting their butt fat injected into their lips.

Meagan Brothers

#77. Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#78. They spoke no more of the small news of
the Shire far away, nor of the dark shadows and perils that
encompassed them, but of the fair things they had seen in
the world together, of the Elves, of the stars, of trees, and the
gentle fall of the bright year in the woods.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#79. There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#80. Rain patters on the roof of the wagon like the dancing feet of a hundred happy elves.

Carrie Anne Noble

#81. Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel that, in stories, words could command things to be.

Francis Spufford

#82. Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.

Umberto Eco

#83. Elbryn smiled. "You know, you never told me your name," he said, looking at her fondly.
"No," Holonie answered simply, "I did not."
Elbryn stared at her, his eyes suddenly weary, and Holonie heard the exasperated thought on the surface of his mind, Elves. "Fair enough," he said aloud.

Ash Gray

#84. ... people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.

Terry Pratchett

#85. I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

Patrick Lussier

#86. We (people) only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about.

Terry Pratchett

#87. You're thinking that if the North Pole has little elves and shape-shifting reindeer that maybe werewolves aren't quite so farfetched. Am I right? Well, you're wrong. There's no such thing as werewolves. That would just be crazy.

Candi Kay

#88. Silly dark elves. Earth is for Druids.

Kevin Hearne

#89. Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#90. My grandfather blasted in. "Aw now, hell, carolyn, don't go twisting the boy back up in knots all over again now that you finally got him straightened out. They aren't leprechauns, son. they're elves. Leprechauns are those little drunk motherfuckers from Ireland.

Augusten Burroughs

#91. More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look ... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.

John Howe

#92. 90% of toys are made in china, which technically makes the chinese elves

Sean Lock

#93. One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.

Neil Gaiman