Elves Quotes
84 quotes by 50 authors
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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was…
— Annie Besant
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of…
— Orlando Bloom
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
— Orlando Bloom
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Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant…
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Id have to say, for me, as a child, my favorite memories were always centered around Christmas time. It always seemed like no matter how…
— Josie Bissett
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
— Terry Brooks
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I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a…
— Jim Butcher
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Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
— Matt Groening
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If Mitt Romney was Santa Claus, he would fire the reindeer and outsource the elves.
— Ted Strickland
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It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and…
— Francesca Lia Block
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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves…
— C.S. Lewis
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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
— John Milton
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Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ...…
— Michael Dirda
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Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth…
— Henry Timrod
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Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There…
— Ted Andrews
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"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words…
— Neil Gaiman
Who Wrote These Elves Quotes
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