Top 100 Slay Quotes
#1. And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?
Oscar Wilde
#2. 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
#3. If you turn into a hideous monster and I am sent to slay you, I will remember this and make it as painless as I can, out of respect for you.
Jim Butcher
#6. ...citizens of the U.S. live under an Empire of "evil doers" who have set themselves juxtaposed to humanity instilling in us from our youngest days how to slay our human element in exchange for an external existence of malnourished pride.
Steven Storm
#7. Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
Marilu Henner
#9. CLYTEMNESTRA
What ails thee, raising this ado for us?
SLAVE
I say the dead are come to slay the living.
Aeschylus
#10. Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#11. Bind me-I still can sing-
Banish-my mandolin
Strikes true within-
Slay-and my Soul shall rise
Chanting to Paradise-
Still thine.
Emily Dickinson
#12. And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#13. How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?
Jack Campbell
#14. Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
Marianne Williamson
#15. Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere five pieces, you can do whatever you like - slay the dragon and then cook its tenderloin in the style of the duke of Wellington, if you want to.
Mario Batali
#16. If there are no barriers to cross or demons to slay to reach the desired destination, we will not call it a success.
Debasish Mridha
#19. The brave men did not slay the dragons. The brave men rode them.
Unknown
#20. You invited me here to slay dragons, did you not? Well. That's what I'm trying to do.
Rick Yancey
#21. Just as God gave Moses exactly what he needed to accomplish great things, he will equip us in the same way. If he calls us to slay giants, he will make us into giant slayers.
Christine Caine
#22. Arise, slay thy enemies, enjoy a prosperous kingdom,
Bhagavad Gita
#23. Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer's most ancient task.
David Burr Gerrard
#24. Rule #17: To rescue a princess from magical imprisonment, a handsome prince must first slay the dragon. If one is not available, a large iguana will do in a pinch."
- Definitive Fairy-Tale Survival Guide, Volume 1
Betsy Schow
#25. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
Harry S. Truman
#26. I wanted to help him but I guess ultimately you can only slay the dragon yourself. All that I could do was help him sharpen his sword if he needed me to.
Nikki Sixx
#27. Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You're going to get to her somehow, some way.
Phil McGraw
#28. The purpose of modern warfare is to slay as many civilians as possible.
David Mitchell
#29. Now that you've reached everything, you must slay this illusion without slaying it - without becoming caught up in the illusion of slaying illusions.
Frederick Lenz
#30. Your heart has stolen mine; two souls beating in time.
Yet you push me away-rejection a cruel slay.
I beg you to kiss me. Take me. Claim me.
Make me yours and put my fears at bay.
Pepper Winters
#31. How many men soever you slay, you will never kill your successor.
Seneca.
#32. For the turning away of the simple, shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Thomas Boston
#34. She nodded shyly, still watching him with her huge blue eyes. Those eyes made him want to slay dragons for her.
Anna Zaires
#35. Clocks slay time ... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
#36. I thought of the unblemished thing, the thing that lasts, and I thought the only thing with the power to save us also had the power to slay us.
Rick Yancey
#37. But I do not slay man or beast needlessly, and not gladly even when it is needed. Neither do I talk in vain.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. It wilna end wi' me, Campbell. Slay me, and you'll face my brothers and after them my Muhheconneok kin. You cannae possibly kill us all.
Pamela Clare
#40. If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, it will slay you.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#42. Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.
Lenny Bruce
#43. Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.
Euripides
#44. It takes Elder about 2.5 seconds to reach my room after I com him.
"What's wrong?" he asks, skidding through the door.
I laugh at the way his eyes search my room, looking for a dragon to slay for his damsel in distress.
Beth Revis
#45. 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
#46. We're going to knock those demons out and slay them with the power of Jesus. Hallelujah, can I get an amen?- Timmie
Jeaniene Frost
#47. Thou shalt not kill a child by abortion, neither shalt thou slay it when born;
Anonymous
#48. Liv," he said, his voice rough with tenderness, "you don't have to be afraid."
"Why not?"
"Because I'll slay monsters for you.
Nina Lane
#49. I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
Rita Mae Brown
#50. In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run.
Phil Hewitt
#51. I, Geric-Sinath of Gerhard, declare that you're beautiful and you're perfect and I'll slay any man who tries to take you from my side. Goose girl, may I kiss you?
Shannon Hale
#52. Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!
Christopher Morley
#53. The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance
Simon Boylan
#54. We killed you and it was not new for us, we killed the companions of the Prophet and the friends of God. O how many Messengers did we slay? O how many imams? We killed you and you prayed the night prayer, as all of our days are struggle - and all of our days are Karbala.
Nizar Qabbani
#55. I must destroy everybody that comes in front of me. I must execute them and I must do it in grand style. I must slay Robert Allen like I must slay De La Hoya or anybody else that steps in that ring.
Bernard Hopkins
#57. Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.
Peter S. Beagle
#58. Welcome back to Personal Demons." Megan said into the microphone. "Our next caller is Regina. Hi, Regina, how can I slay your personal demons?"
The words tasted like shame.
Stacia Kane
#59. The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
Homer
#61. You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead
Shannon Barnsley
#62. I would slay dragons for you," he told her. "I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.
Patricia Briggs
#63. Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill.
Kenneth Rand
#64. The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Henrik Ibsen
#65. The first time [Christ] came to slay sin in men. The second time He will come to slay men in sin.
Arthur W. Pink
#66. So damn beautiful. You look like a goddess. Like a warrior. Like you could slay me and you do. Just looking at you ruins me. I love to look at you. I could look at you lying spread like this forever. Open to me, wet and flushed - forever and never grow tired.
Skye Warren
#67. Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
T.D. Jakes
#68. Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here."
"I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself.
Robin Bielman
#69. You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick.
Jury Nel
#70. The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.
Charles Spurgeon
#71. Never slay your enemies!
Take advantage of them all!
Toba Beta
#73. Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
Charles Dickens
#74. The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport
Walt Frazier
#75. Rebel against the flesh and bone,
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay.
Dylan Thomas
#76. I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me. Before
Peter S. Beagle
#77. You were planned, Noah. Engineered." Noah practically radiated frustration. "For what?"
"To be the hero," David said, looking at Noah like he was his greatest disappointment. "To slay the dragon. But you fell in love with it instead.
Michelle Hodkin
#78. Facing your own feelings is like attempting to slay a fire-breathing dragon, and admitting your fear seems to make it more real, way harder to suppress.
Josie Wright
#79. With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
Oscar Wilde
#80. Anyone can slay a dragon ... but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
Brian Andreas
#81. There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
Pat Oliphant
#82. She had always thought that she wanted someone to love her beyond all reason. Someone who would slay a regiment of knights to save her the slightest inconvenience.
She'd been wrong. That sort of fool left nothing but a swath of bloody knights in his wake.
Courtney Milan
#83. What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre.
Betsy Schow
#84. Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.
Charles Spurgeon
#85. O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art, ...
William Shakespeare
#86. Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.
Jeanette Winterson
#87. Remember, men. it is better to wound than to slay, since it takes time to carry an injured man to the rear and sometimes requires two of the enemy rather than one.
John Jakes
#88. Which is to say that we all have dragons to slay in life. This one is mine. I hope that doing so will provide a model to others on how to find the bravery to be true to oneself, even if it means doing something that seems impossible.
Jennifer Finney Boylan
#89. And in that moment, he knew one thing. If it was possible to slay his dragons, he'd do it. For her.
Miranda Liasson
#90. To slay, to love - the greatest enterprises of life upon a man! And I have no experience of either.
Joseph Conrad
#91. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
Joseph Campbell
#92. Some Arrows slay but whom they strike - But this slew all but him - Who so appareled his Escape - Too trackless for a Tomb
Emily Dickinson
#93. There are no more battles between good and evil, no more monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens areare perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience,at least the ones worth anything in any case.
Erin Morgenstern
#94. It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
Martin Luther
#95. Kendrick walked over to her purposefully, hauled her up into his arms and gave her a mock frown. "I hunger, wench."
Genevieve put her arms around his neck. "Well? What are you going to hunt us for dinner?"
"I'll slay a few steaks from the freezer."
"You're so brave.
Lynn Kurland
#96. I don't believe the half I hear,
Nor the quarter of what I see!
But I have one faith, sublime and true,
That nothing can shake or slay;
Each spring I firmly believe anew
All the seed catalogues say!
Carolyn Wells
#97. Krishna explains. When enemies become too numerous and powerful, they should be slain by deceit and stratagems. This was the path formerly trodden by the devas to slay the asuras; and a path trodden by the virtuous may be trodden by all.
Karen Armstrong
#98. Fear never scaled one mountain, never stepped up on a stage, never accepted a challenge, never tilled new ground, never walked in a race; he never even dared to dream. Fear failed to slay a single dragon. Remember this before you choose to keep his company.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.
William Rose Benet
#100. Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.
Saint Augustine
