Quotes About Tolkien Dragons

#1. Elves and Dragons! I says to him. Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Elves and Dragons! Cabbages and potatoes are better for me and you. Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

~Hamfast Gamgee (the Gaffer)

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. There are in any case many heroes but very few good dragons.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

Ingmar Bergman

#6. Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.

Steven Brust

#7. Never laugh at live dragons.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. Getting rid of dragons is not at all in my line, but I will do my best to think about it. Personally I have no hopes at all, and wish I was safe back at home.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Teri Garr

#10. You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.

Sully Tarnish

#11. Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. I have wanted ... to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! ... But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

Agatha Christie

#14. Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life
a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

Jane Kaczmarek

#15. The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you're just a wee dragon lad.

Sully Tarnish

#16. I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.

Rafael Sabatini

#17. This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I
In a Berkshire bar. The big workman
Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe
All the evening, from his empty mug
With gleaming eye glanced towards us:
"I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

C.S. Lewis

#19. If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.

J.R.R. Tolkien