Dragons

Scared of the monster under your bed? This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes about dragons.

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"Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo

Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.

Come not between the dragon, and his wrath.
William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
Criss Jami

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

Hagrid had been known to befriend giant spiders, buy vicious, three-headed dogs from men in pubs and sneak illegal dragon eggs into his cabin.
J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban

He who wants to be a dragon must eat many little snakes.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon

In shallow holes moles make fools of dragons.

In shallow waters, shrimps make fools of dragons.

My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Smaug

Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
J.K. Rowling

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit

Swords in these parts are mostly blunt, and axes are used for trees, and
shields as cradles or dish covers; and dragons are comfortably far off, and
therefore legendary.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
Quoted: Gandalf

The head of a dragon, the tail of a snake.

There is no room for two dragons in one pond.

There was a most special greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
About the dragon.

What's life without a few dragons?
J.K. Rowling

With a shriek that deafened men, felled trees and split stone, Smaug shot spouting into the air, turned over and crashed down from on high in ruin.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 14 - Fire and Water
About Smaug dying.

With money, a dragon, without it, a worm.




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