Dragons

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

Quotes referring to Dragons

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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. ~ W. H. Auden

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. ~ Marianne Moore

• If the lion and dragon fight, they will both die.
  • Tadashi Adachi, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Japan quoted in Newsweek (17 May 1965)

• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
  • W. H. Auden, quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) edited by James Beasley Simpson

• And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
  And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
  And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
  • The Bible : Revelation 12:7-9

• The age of chivalry is past. ... Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too many lances in vain ever to hope for their extirpation.
  • Benjamin Disraeli in The Young Duke : A Moral Tale, Though Gay (1853)

• Conquer the demon of jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
  • Havelock Ellis, in Little Essays of Love and Virtue (1922) by Havelock Ellis, p. 100

• 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, quoted in Secret of the Dragon's Eye : Book One (2007) by Derek Hart

• O to be a dragon,
  a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm
  size or immense; at times invisible.
  Felicitous phenomenon!
  • Marianne Moore, in "O To Be A Dragon" in O To Be A Dragon (1957)

• I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
  • Tom Robbins, in Still Life with Woodpecker (1981), p. 99

• No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
  • George Bernard Shaw, in the Preface to Androcles and the Lion (1912)

• It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit

• Never laugh at live dragons.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit

• Come not between the dragon, and his wrath.
  • William Shakespeare, in King Lear

• Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
  • G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909), XVII: "The Red Angel"

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• Do not annoy a dragon, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
  • Unknown

See also

• Chinese dragon – quotes about the oriental variety of auspicious powers.

External links

• Dragon Covers | Gods of Art