#dragon

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#bores #chivalry #dragons #past #succeeded

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) ↗

— Naomi Novik

#dramatic-announcements #revenge #beauty

I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. ↗

— Emily Watson

#dragon #driven #expect #great #i

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

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#between #conservatives #difference #dragons #dungeons

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#dragons #dungeons #fire #game #gold

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#important #least #life #slay #stress

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

#dragons #fairy-tales #inspirational #paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton #inspirational

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

#am #because #bottom #bottom line #business

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. ↗

— Steven Brust

#dragon #enraged #politely #speak