Dragons Quotes

• If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.

  Scott Fahlman

  Heat, Ifs

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• 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

  Fans, Should

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• Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable.

  Saul

  Treasure, Valuable, Guarded

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• ...if you dance with dragons, you must expect to burn.

  George R. R. Martin

  Ifs

  George R. R. Martin (2015). “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms”, p.443, Bantam

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• Speak politely to an enraged dragon.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Speak

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• For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Challenges, Adults

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

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• When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

  Andrew Solomon

  Hero

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  One Thing

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Deny, Existence

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.211, Shambhala Publications

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• Adult dragons are,astute,powerful,and sure of their strength.

  Ciruelo Cabral

  Powerful, Adults, Astute

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• Never laugh at live dragons.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Laughing

  The Hobbit ch. 12 (1937)

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• I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Animal, Fluffy

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• It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Ifs, Life Adventure

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• Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

  William Shakespeare

  Wrath, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. [124]

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• Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cancer

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.7, A&C Black

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• Among all the kinds of serpents, there is none comparable to the Dragon.

  Edward Topsell

  Kind, Serpent

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• He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fighting, Long, Abyss

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• Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fear, Hippie, Treasure

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• When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Hunger, Hard

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Planning Ahead, Doe, Calculations

  J. R. R. Tolkien (1985). “The Hobbit”

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• We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Hero, Healing

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.93, Bantam

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• If you don't believe in dragons,
  It is curiously true
  That the dragons you disparage
  Choose to not believe in you.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Believe, Ifs, Believe In You

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• O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

  Marianne Moore

  Power, Heaven, Size

  'O To Be a Dragon' (1959)

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• I desired dragons with a profound desire.

  C. S. Lewis

  Profound, Desire

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