(47 quotes found)
“In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons”
Proverb
“Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.”
Carol Lynn Pearson
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb”
W. H. Auden
“...someone might slip dragon dung in it again eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertiliser from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face, "It was nothing personal!" "It was," Fred whispered to Harry, as they got up from the table. "We sent it.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.”
William Osler
“The struggle is confused; our knight wins by no clean thrust of lance or sword, but the dragon somehow poops out, and decent democracy is victor.”
Norman Thomas
“And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.”
Bible
“Kingdom of the Golden Dragon”
Isabel Allende
“Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.”
