Dragon Quotes
331 quotes by 207 authors
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Come not between the dragon and his wrath.
— William Shakespeare
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Speak politely to an enraged dragon.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It never does to leave a live Dragon out of the equation.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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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…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on…
— Confucius
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Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things,…
— Joseph Campbell
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The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.
— Dion Fortune
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With eager dragon-eyes;
— Robert Graves
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The real irony is that the view of infinity as some forbidden zone or road to insanity - which view was very old and powerful…
— David Foster Wallace
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Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.
— Brennan Manning
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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…
— Joseph Campbell
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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…
— Heinrich Heine
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On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair.…
— Heinrich Heine
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Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who…
— Mary McCarthy
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Do not be amazed by the true dragon.
— Dogen
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There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
— Pat Oliphant
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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
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Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
— Criss Jami
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You're chasing the dragon, you're chasing the high. A bird with one wing, who's still trying to fly.
— Ozzy Osbourne
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The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
— Joseph Campbell
Who Wrote These Dragon Quotes
207 authors contributed a total of 331 Dragon Quotes, led by these top contributors: