Quotes of Dragon - somelinesforyou

“ Unless a serpent devour a serpent, it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. ”

- Unknown

“ Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. ”

- Unknown

“ Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. ”

- John Milton

“ Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you. ”

- Patricia C. Wrede

“ Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouthTame the dragon and the gift is yours. ”

- Noela Evans

“ The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. ”

- Ezra

“ I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out. ”

- Victoria Adams

“ I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out! ”

- Victoria Beckham

“ I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress. ”

- Virgil Thomson

“ His hair stood upright like porcupine quills. ”

- Giovanni Boccaccio

“ The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ And the turtles, of course... All the turtles are free - As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored. ”

- Natalie Imbruglia

“ Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. ”

- J. R. R. Tolkein

“ Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ”

- Alexandre ‘the Younger’ Dumas

“ Consult your dragon before you wager his hide. ”

- Melaine Rawn

“ Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. ”

- Carol Pearson

“ Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. ”

- Havelock Ellis

“ Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens. ”

- John Maynard Keynes

“ Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. ”

- Sandra Day O’Connor

“ Some days the dragon wins. ”

- Unknown

“ The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonous beasts, and all the treasures of evil, there are rough and uneven roads, there are precipes; but there too is God and the angels, life is there, and the Kingdom, there too is light, and there the apostles and heavenly cities, and treasures of grace… ”

- Makarios the Great

“ One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned… ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value. ”

- Robert Anthony Salvatore

“ Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke
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