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Dragons Quotes - Page 6

She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around.

John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.217, Wordsworth Editions

One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.790, Bantam

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3226, e-artnow

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding

Allan Aubrey Boesak (1987). “Comfort and Protest: Reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos”

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

William Shakespeare, Roger Warren, George Wilkins (2004). “A Reconstructed Text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt