Quotes About Gnomes

#1. I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.

Tyler, The Creator

#2. Daddy, look - one of the gnomes actually bit me!

J.K. Rowling

#3. They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes

Cassandra Clare

#4. I wouldn't trust Newcastle's back five to protect my garden gnomes from squirrels.

Jonathan Pearce

#5. Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.

Lauren DeStefano

#6. Then, four years later I received news from Aridea. She'd tracked down the little one, who was living in Mahakam with seven gnomes whom she'd managed to convince it was more profitable to rob merchants on the roads than to pollute their lungs with dust from the mines.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#7. You're tell me those are gnomes pretending to be dwarfs pretending to be elves? Are you trying to play Six Degrees of Bilbo Baggins again?

Kevin Hearne

#8. I hate this idea that boys are thinking about sex nonstop and girls are thinking about - what? Stationery and garden gnomes? No.

Julie Murphy

#9. The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

Terence McKenna

#10. Call them what you want. Garden gnomes. Lawn ornaments. Little evil outdoor statuary hell-bent on world domination. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that, right now, they're hiding in plain sight, pretending to be symbols of merriment and good will.

Chuck Sambuchino

#11. After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.

Kat Stiles

#12. Muggles have garden gnomes, too, you know," Harry told Ron as they crossed the lawn.
"Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes," said Ron, bent double with his head in a peony bush, "like fat little Santa Clauses with fishing rods ...

J.K. Rowling

#13. The gnomes are getting smarter.

Skylar Dorset

#14. I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

Richard Briers

#15. I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes ... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

Thom Yorke

#16. Don't think you'll shame me with your prim silence. I'm not ashamed in the least. Just because you make friends by acting as though you were found under a turnip leaf and raised by gnomes, it doesn't mean everyone takes pleasure in being prudish.

Tessa Dare

#17. 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

#18. I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

P.G. Wodehouse

#19. 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

#20. Because of a few shifter beheadings? Come on, Lizvetta, it's not as if I went around cock-slapping gnomes.

Kresley Cole

#21. Cats are the slipperiest of domestic animals. Thousands of years of genetic coding has taught them to melt into azaleas, lie motionless behind garden gnomes, glide along fence tops, and slink under benches.

Caroline Paul

#22. Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

John Dobbin

#23. In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Joseph Jacobs

#24. He probably thinks pixies are a lesser species. Half-sentient, like gnomes and Internet trolls.

Rainbow Rowell

#25. Yeah, I've seen those things they think are gnomes, said Ron,

J.K. Rowling

#26. The bus timetable sites are all run by an inbred cabal of malicious gnomes. Who don't speak English. And who don't count very well either. Or tell time. And they certainly can't read maps.

Robin McKinley

#27. People kill over money and power and love, but no one kills over gnomes.

S.J. Kincaid

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

Jacqueline Rayner

#29. The air was soon thick with flying gnomes.

J.K. Rowling

#30. 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

#31. I swallowed. "Is that ... for me?"
One of the other gnomes, a short man with a nose like a potato, laughed.
"Well, the prince certainly isn't going to wear it.

Julie Kagawa

#32. Look, the life of gnomes and goblins is nasty, brutish and short. So are they.

Terry Pratchett

#33. Mungo was a gnome. Disguised as a dwarf. The blatantly false beard was a giveaway. It appeared that Mungo had crafted it himself out of hair collected from a wide assortment of cars and then glued it to his face.

Jeffery Russell

#34. Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.

Jefferson Smith