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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

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