“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
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien
“Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.”
– George R. R. Martin, “A Dance with Dragons”
“Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning may bare the raven’s eye!”
— Shakespeare, “Cymbeline”
“O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven – of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible.”
– Marianne Moore
“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”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
– Alexandre Dumas
“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.”
— George R.R. Martin, “A Song of Ice and Fire” series
“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
– Charles Dickens
