Top 100 The Dragon Quotes
#1. Patriotic?" Will looked smug. "I'll tell you what's patriotic," he said. "In honor of my birthplace, I've the dragon of Wales tattooed on my -
Cassandra Clare
#2. FOX said the Dragon had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated the 'scale might've been created by engineers at Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of Revelation. CNN reported both sides.
Joe Hill
#3. It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.
Laini Taylor
#4. Demandred!" Galad yelled. "Demandred, you call for the Dragon Reborn! You demand to fight him! He is not here, but his brother is! Will you stand against me?
Robert Jordan
#5. Atonement (at-one-ment) consists in no more than the abandonment of the self-generated double monster-the dragon thought to be God (superego) and the dragon thought to be Sin (repressed id). But this requires an abandonment of the attachment to ego itself, and that is what is difficult.
Joseph Campbell
#6. All the drawing lacks
is the final touch: To add
eyes to the dragon
Diane Duane
#7. I do not see how my agreeing to marry a scruffy old brute will have the power to keep a fire-breathing dragon locked beneath a mountain. And if I don't agree to marry him, will I truly be fed to the dragon? That is savage, and inhumane, and crazy.
Bethany Wiggins
#8. Only the strong survived. Only the strong were rewarded. For the longest time, Four was another conquest. A prize Three had won. Then he'd realized Four was the one who dominated. He'd tamed the dragon, the monster, and given a conscience to Stone's most ruthless killer.
Adrienne Wilder
#9. The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Francis Bacon
#10. As long as their fear of the dragon is stronger than their greed, this is a reasonable loss, said he. What's concerned us is that someone will become bold and organize a way to maim or kill her. The hoard is only metals and jewels. Nothing essential to life. Egnis's mystery is.
Ronlyn Domingue
#11. Miss Wetherell lived by the will of the dragon, after all, a drug that played steward to an imbecile king, and she would guard that throne with jealous eyes forever.
Eleanor Catton
#12. It was a beautiful creature. But... the dragon was about the size of a cat-a really small cat. Not exactly what I had been expecting.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#13. As the dragon charged it released huge clouds of hissing steam through its nostrils. It was almost as if a gigantic teapot had gone mad.
Heywood Broun
#14. The Lion lingered in the brush, keeping out of sight and sound as the Wolf watched over the dragon still sprawled across the beach.
Sarah J. Maas
#15. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
G.K. Chesterton
#16. One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.
Stellan Skarsgard
#17. Because if being a badass was easy everyone would do it
Lexy of Ankh
(The Dragon)
Enlightenment
Kim Cormack
#18. One small hand lifted to the shower head and he stilled. He'd yet to see her skin; the dragon had claimed her on scent alone.
Setta Jay
#19. Sometimes it's the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.
Samuel E. Lowe
#20. Brothers and sisters no genuine change can ever take place in a generation or epoch without first slaying the dragon of religion.
Sunday Adelaja
#21. A hunter? You? You can not be a hunter. You are a GIRL. - Perin Ibarra to Faiel, in the Dragon Reborn
Robert Jordan
#22. And Anakin is on his way despite the dread boiling through his blood. That's what makes him a real hero. Not the way the HoloNet labels him; not without fear, but stronger than fear.
He looks the dragon in the eye and doesn't even slow down.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#23. If you see the dragon fly,
best you drink the flagon dry.
- Zarost
Greg Hamerton
#24. I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me
Burton Raffel
#25. The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection ...
Heinrich Heine
#26. The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.
Cyril Of Jerusalem
#27. The dragon in him didn't want to give her a choice. Just wrap around her and smolder smugly, daring anyone who came near to cross him. Mine.
Erin Kellison
#28. You could tell the position of the dragon by the rattle of arrows across the city, and by the screams and gurgles of all those hit by the misses and ricochets.
Terry Pratchett
#29. Good night," whispered the creature, grasping sand out of his way, but the players were in their beds far away from the desert. Only a little crimson and gold blaze gaped and breathed by the bush behind the neck of the dragon.
J.M.K. Walkow
#30. So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?
Kiersten White
#31. The townspeople took the prince for dead
When he never returned with the dragon's head
When with her, he stayed
She thought he'd be too afraid
But he loved her too much instead.
Jess C. Scott
#32. To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
Rumi
#33. No. No coveting the dragon. Dragons are bad. We
W.B. McKay
#35. And in that dismal restaurant, surrounded by the simple government clerks who sat there repairing the wear and tear of their humble daily tasks, my broad-shouldered messmate seemed to me strangely noble; beneath his rough hide I could discern the angel who had vanquished the dragon.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#36. Regret at telling her about the dragon, about the words, settled into his gut. It left him feeling too exposed, like his nerves sat atop his skin.
Laura Kaye
#37. Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money ... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#38. Fire, water, earth, and air,
All meet in the dragon's lair.
Six brave hearts have failed the test;One continues in the quest.
Remember well the words you know
When on to find your fate you go.
Emily Rodda
#39. Back now to the mountain!" cried Thorin. "We have little time to lose." "And little food to use!" cried Bilbo, always practical on such points. In any case he felt that the adventure was, properly speaking, over with the death of the dragon.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#40. "The She of the dragon will return and ascend
When the cycle of twelve draws to an end ... "
"The She of the Dragoneye will restore and defend
When the Darkforce is mastered with Hua of All Men.
Alison Goodman
#41. From the seed of the thief
The Dragon will rise,
the gluttonous one,
feeding on the blood of babes,
Drinking the tears of mothers.
- Song of Venda
Mary E. Pearson
#42. Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.
Jill Johnston
#43. The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.
G.K. Chesterton
#44. 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
#45. You're like someone from a fairy story written in a language I don't even know."
"The prince, I hope."
"No, you're the dragon, a beautiful wicked dragon.
Lisa Kleypas
#46. Cats like sleeping and resting on intersections. There are many stories about magical animals but really, apart from the dragon, the cat is the only creature which can absorb the force. No one knows why a cat absorbs it and what it does with it ...
Andrzej Sapkowski
#47. Unable to help herself, she traced the tat, startled by the black and red ink mixed together. But it was the dragon design itself that made her skin prickle with awareness, appreciation. Soul-sucking desire.
Donna Grant
#48. 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
#49. The dragon reared her head, breathing in the storm and loving every minute of it. It was the start of a voyage, and a storm at the beginning of a voyage was always a good omen.
Angie Sage
#50. In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.
Bruce Cockburn
#51. Shame
what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.
Brennan Manning
#53. I hate that name," Mr. Grey said, walking toward the dragon's head statue. It was taller than he was, formed eerily from the stalactites and stalagmites of the cavern wall. "I wanted to be Mr. Purple. I like purple.
G. Norman Lippert
#54. 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
#55. Dany kissed him lightly on the cheek. It heartened her to see him smile. I must be strong for him as well, she thought grimly. A knight he may be, but I am the blood of the dragon.
George R R Martin
#56. That's very kind of you," she said bitterly, for she no longer believed in kindness. "And you're willing to do this ... why? Because you're fond of helping others?"
"I'm fond of revenge," the dragon answered.
Vivian Vande Velde
#57. So, me versus the dragon. Except-- Except she's not a dragon. She's just a girl. Like me.
Kelly Thompson
#58. China is referred to as the 'dragon' and India as an 'elephant'. But we are not an elephant, we are a 'beehive'.
Rahul Gandhi
#59. Who knows where a thought will lead?" Scree in The Dragon Dreamer
J.S. Burke
#60. You and I. We're going back. People are dying because of this beast. It must be stopped. And we will take the dragon this time, and water the ground with its blood.
Ruth Ford Elward
#61. 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
#62. I had never yet done such a thing in life, but now I felt a desire to mock.
("In The Court Of The Dragon")
Robert W. Chambers
#63. 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
#64. I am Bard, and by my hand was the dragon slain and your treasure delivered.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#65. You are meant to heal. There is beauty and wild magic in the night. Enough to make you ache with joy and grow strong. There is no lesson in that. There is just reward, waiting for you, that asks nothing and demands no payment. Look! the Dragon orders. Look and tell me what more is needed.
Alexia Casale
#66. The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight.
Margaret Hodges
#67. Viewpoint is everything. You can only see what you are prepared to see," by Scree, in The Dragon Dreamer
J.S. Burke
#68. This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
R.A. Salvatore
#69. DRAGON-GAGGERS: Instead of swords, some heroes wield toothbrushes, say they are there to "brush the dragon's teeth," and then they poke the toothbrush into the back gaggy part of its hot tongue.
Amy Leach
#70. 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
#71. Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon's gullet.
George R R Martin
#72. Thought folk were buried there?" "They are! And their treasures! So the dragon guards the hoard. That's what dragons do. Bury gold and you hatch a dragon, see?
Bernard Cornwell
#73. Well, all right, Ash thought. Maybe freeing the dragon wasn't such a good idea.
Cinda Williams Chima
#74. Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.
Madeleine Albright
#75. The dragon shifter mating call was a powerful, magical thing that once initiated was impossible to break unless the female denounced her mate.
Julia Mills
#76. It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince
Melanie Rawn
#77. You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty ... when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I'd do every nut and rivet, and I'd do every scale on the dragon's back. It was just the way I was built.
Graeme Base
#79. Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.
Edward Topsell
#80. Do something extraordinary, something world changing with your life. Barring that, at least do something that brings you joy." - the dragon Furidor
Kai Herbertz
#81. Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it.
Lawren Leo
#82. We should not be just a fan of dragons; we should always be the dragon himself. Then we will not be afraid of any dragon.
Shunryu Suzuki
#83. He looked like a prince, but if I were going to cast him in a fairy tale now, I'd cast him as The Dragon! A beastly, judgmental, fire-breathing dragon.
Mia Sheridan
#84. The treasure is likely to be your death, though the dragon is no more!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#86. Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere.
Richard Siken
#87. A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
Joseph Campbell
#88. Since ancient times, the dragon has been the only beast to equal the tiger. Even if you're not by my side right now, I will leap through space and time and always be by your side. These feelings will never change.
Yuyuko Takemiya
#89. And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time ...
Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.
Scott Westerfeld
#90. Bruce Lee has always been a hero of mine, and the choreography in 'Enter The Dragon' is amazing.
Benedict Wong
#91. 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
#92. Youth to youth, like the dragon-flies chasing each other, and love like the sun warming them through and through.
John Galsworthy
#93. It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.
Stephanie Zacharek
#94. Before we left them, I slanted a glance at Leila, and mischievously said, "No one thought what you just did could be done, you know. You'll earn the nickname of The Dragon Slayer."
Vlad glowered at me, but Bones laughed.
Jeaniene Frost
#95. Prove that you are my daughter, prove that you are mine. Prove to me that you are the blood of the dragon. Prove you are worthy of that mark on your skin.
Melissa De La Cruz
#96. Who entereth herein, a conqueror hath bin; Who slayeth the dragon, the shield he shall win.
Edgar Allan Poe
#97. There, close enough to spit on
if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit
was the dragon.
Vivian Vande Velde
#98. I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
Adam McKay
#99. Come not between the dragon and his wrath. - William Shakespeare King Lear
Matthew Reilly
#100. With the king's declaration of the disbanding of the Dragon Brigade, our service to our country comes to an end.
Margaret Weis
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