We all have heard, read or watched stories about Dragons. Whether you are a kid or an adult, we all fancy dragons and want to know more about these monsters. Here are thoughtfully compiled some of the best dragon quotes from all corners for our readers.
Stories about Dragons are all over the internet and television in nearly every culture around the world. There are Chinese dragons, then there are European dragons, and also Egyptian dragons which are depicted as different creatures with unique set of powers, traits and symbolic meanings. These dragon quotes will give you a range of meanings depending upon you take it such as love, power, spirit, and more.
Best Dragon quotes for thrill and adventure lovers
1)“Our biggest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasures.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
2) “There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.” – Thomas Chatterton Williams
3). “A life fuelled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.” — Suzy Kassem.
4) “Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.” – Steven Brust
5) “Dragons and legends…It would have been difficult for any man not to want to fight beside a dragon.” – Patricia Briggs
6) “A dragon is not a slave.” – Daenerys Targaryen
7) “I’m kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.” – Yoko Ono
8) “When there are a hundred dragons in the sky, it is Hell Down and Hallow Fire. It is the winds of a hurricane and the roar of the storm. We blot out the sun, we blacken the clouds, we churn the sea like foam. — H. Leighton Dickson.
9) “Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!” – Theophilus London
10) “A dragon would never hurt a soul, unless they tried to hurt him first.” – Draco
11) “I like Aurora, ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ because she’s just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life – lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you.” – Ariana Grande
12) “It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.” – Bertrand Russell
13). “I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins and know that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice and solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it’s best not to.” – Karen Joy Fowler
14) “When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.” – Ho Chi Minh
15). “No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.” – R.A. Salvatore
16. “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you live near him.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
17. “Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.” – Havelock Ellis
18. “Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.” – Criss Jami
19. “But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
20 “He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
21. “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
Dragon quotes to appreciate the incredible creatures
22) “There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.” – Pat Oliphant
23) “Stress is an important dragon to slay – or at least tame – in your life.” – Marilu Henner
24) “It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was ‘dragon lady’ or something like it.” – Dolores Huerta
25) “Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.” ― Anne McCaffrey, Nerilka’s Story
26) “I’m still a small shrimp, not a dragon.” – Barry Lam
27) “Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‘tough this and tough that.’ Then there is this business about ‘gooey.’ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.” – Madeleine Albright
28) “It was always that detail that drove me. Ever since I was a little kid, I used to get into the nitty gritty… when I was drawing army tanks or monsters, I’d do every nut and rivet, and I’d do every scale on the dragon’s back. It was just the way I was built.” – Graeme Base
Dragon quotes to unlock your inner potential
29) “I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.” – Cornelia Funke
30) “Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was ‘Beowulf’ because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you’re fighting a dragon or whatever.” – Ray Winstone
31) “He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
32) Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don’t cross.” – Florence King
33). “I saw the first ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.” – Cate Blanchett (Dragon Quotes from Movies)
34) “So many people think that if you’re writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as you go. Want to add a dragon? Add a dragon! Want some magic? Throw it in. But the thing is, regardless of whether you’re dealing with realism or fantasy, every world has rules. Make sure to establish a natural order.” – V. E. Schwab
35). “I think women should be more independent. In society, we’re portrayed as people who simply wear make-up and sit around. We need a Princess Charming – a woman who rescues her man and slays the dragon instead of the other way round.” – Adora Svitak
Dragon Quotes
36). “Writers can take offense when someone asks what’s real or autobiographical in our work because, to us, that’s not what counts. The bits taken from life are tiny scales on the dragon’s tail – what about that whole beautiful writhing, fire-breathing dragon?” – Michelle Huneven
37). “No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
38) “’Game of Thrones’ really is an amazing series. Political intrigue, and then they throw in a little magic. I mean, it’s got a dragon in it.” – Rick Harrison
39). “Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.” – A. N. Wilson
40). “In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon – in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.” – Susannah Cahalan
41). “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
42). “Why wouldn’t you be afraid of a Komodo dragon? It’s a dragon. It’s a dinosaur.” – Billy Bob Thornton
43) “You haven’t been bit till a dragon does it.” – Tamora Pierce
44). “Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.” – Phil McGraw
45) “It’s been a thrilling journey – I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity – it’s a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to… ride and don’t let go and you will be fine.” – Tori Amos
Poetic Dragons Quotes from Stories and Literature
“Come not between the dragon, and his wrath.”- William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Fairy tales do not give the 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 dragons 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
“I was a huge bookworm as a kid, and you could usually find me reading something with a dragon on its cover.” – Julie Kagawa
“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, Coraline
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn’t matter if it’s an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn’t matter. They’re human in their heart and soul.” – R. A. Salvatore
“Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; / If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!”― Dorothy L. Sayers, Catholic Tales and Christian Songs
“He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.” ― Dee Marie, Sons of Avalon: Merlin’s Prophecy
“I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril.”― J.R.R. Tolkien
“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.” – George R. R. Martin
“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
“Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I’m obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.” – Frankie Grande
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” – Alexandre Dumas
“Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of qualities that make being afraid of them a very commendable response. Things like their terrible size, their ability to spout fire, or to crack boulders into splinters with their massive talons. In fact, the only terrifying quality that dragons do not possess is that of existence.”― David Whiteland, Book of Pages
Some More Funny Famous Dragons Quotes and Sayings
“Never laugh at live dragons.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
“Noble dragons don’t have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.” ― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven – of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible.” — Marianne Moore, O To Be A Dragon
“Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.”― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.” — Noela Evans.
“Speak politely to an enraged dragon.”― J.R.R. Tolkien
“The key to having good scales is a healthy diet of venison when you’re just a wee dragon lad.” — Sully Tarnish.
“The dragon is a very consistent symbol of secret satellite iconography and signals intelligence satellites.” – Trevor Paglen
“Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?” — Richelle E. Goodrich.
“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
“They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.”― S.G. Rogers, Jon Hansen and the Dragon Clan of Yden
“True Dragons are among the Universe’s most perfect beings. This is a useful bit of information. Squirrel it away like a nugget of Fafnir’s gold; take it out and burnish it now and then as we proceed.”― Shawn MacKenzie
“You can’t map a sense of humor. Anyway, what is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons? On the Discworld, we know that There Be Dragons Everywhere. They might not all have scales and forked tongues, but they Be Here all right, grinning and jostling and trying to sell you souvenirs.”― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
Motivational Dragon quotes and sayings
70) “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
71) “The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.” – Charles Dickens
72) “A life fuelled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon.” — Suzy Kassem.
73) “It’s hard to stop Muggles from noticing us if we’re keeping dragons in the back garden. Anyway, you can’t tame dragons, it’s dangerous.” — J. K. Rowling
74) . “Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
75) “My armor 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 (Chinese Dragon Quotes)
76). “I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn’t use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special and almost kind of like a secret club because a lot of people didn’t know what it was and didn’t understand it.” – Wil Wheaton
77). “Confidence is similar to a dragon: for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.” ― Criss Jami
78)“Dragons are basically our pipe-dreams of what birds would be if they still looked liked ancient dinosaurs but followed evolution’s flight plan.” – Kyle Hill
79). “I’m an early bird, partly because I like to have some quiet time and partly because by 9 am emails begin arriving, the phone starts ringing and I have dragons to kill of one sort or another.” – Andrew Motion
80)“When the hammer shall fall upon the dragon, a new king shall arise, and none shall stand before him.” — George R. R. Martin.
81). “We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.” – Tom Robbins
Short Dragon Quotes about Passion, Courage and Winning
82). “He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.” – Dee Marie.
83). “Slay that dragon once, and he will never have power over you again.” – Steven Pressfield.
84). “Where are my dragons?” – Daenerys Targaryen
85). “Sleeping on a dragon’s hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.” – C.S. Lewis.
86). “If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.” – Ilona Andrews
87) “Oh well, what’s life without a few dragons?” – Ron Weasley
88). “The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science’s great ‘open frontiers.’ These are parts of the intellectual map where we’re still groping for the truth – where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe ‘here be dragons.’” – Martin Rees
89). “If the lion and dragon fight, they will both die.” – Tadashi Adachi
90) Above all things, dragons are loyal. Perhaps that is what makes us too amenable to life with sticks. Our characters are larger than their shortfalls.” — H. Leighton Dickson.
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