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. TolkienSource: 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 ShakespeareSource: King Lear
Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
Criss JamiFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Neil GaimanHagrid 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. RowlingSource: 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 LennonIn 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. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Smaug
Never tickle a sleeping dragon.
J.K. RowlingNo dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: 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. Tolkienshields as cradles or dish covers; and dragons are comfortably far off, and
therefore legendary.
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. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
About the dragon.
What's life without a few dragons?
J.K. RowlingWith 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. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 14 - Fire and Water
About Smaug dying.
With money, a dragon, without it, a worm.