Dwarfs Quotes

• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Xenophobia, Justice, Diversity

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• Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Dwarves, Cunning

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• Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

  Tom Robbins

  Shaving, Seven, Should

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.239, Bantam

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• If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dwarves, Smell, Looks

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Stupidity, Competition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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• If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Different, Three

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Fortunately, the Milk...”, p.74, A&C Black

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Senior, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Life, Self Esteem, Dwarves

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• We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.

  John of Salisbury

  Sight, Add, Sitting

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• Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Fool

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1470, Delphi Classics

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• A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

  Laurence Sterne

  Dwarves, Size, Standards

  Laurence Sterne (1851). “Works of Laurence STerne; Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., A Sentimental Journay Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c”, p.193

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• The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There are stars in the night sky that look brighter than the others, and when you look at them through a telescope you realize you are looking at twins. The two stars rotate around each other, sometimes taking nearly a hundred years to do it. They create so much gravitational pull there's no room around for anything else. You might see a blue star, for example, and realize only later that it has a white dwarf as a companion - that first one shines so bright, by the time you notice the second one, it's too late.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Night, Dwarves

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Soul, Tariffs, Commodity

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."

  Terry Pratchett

  Dwarves, Giants, Blank

  "Men at Arms (Discworld, Book 15)". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1993.

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• All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thrones, May, Song Of Ice And Fire

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• in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea; I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Prayer, Lying, Drinking

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• And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Explanation, Halls

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

  Richard Brautigan

  Horse, Dwarves, Knights

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• Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.

  Randy Pausch

  Careers, Computer, Academic

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit.

  C. S. Lewis

  Two, Rabbits, Three

  C. S. LEWIS (1950). “THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE”

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• I feel like Snow White because now I have a bunch of little dwarf friends who love me. I may not know how Scout's overalls feel but I think I know how Snow White's Shoes feel because now I know why Snow White was happy.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Thinking, Dwarves, Shoes

  Kathryn Erskine (2012). “Mockingbird”, p.52, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Reading, Dwarves

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• The craft's occupants clutched their armrests, and more than one of them closed their eyes. But not Artemis. He couldn't. There was something morbidly fascinating about flying into an uncharted tunnel at a reckless speed with only a kleptomaniac dwarf's word for what lay at the other end.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Dwarves, Tunnels

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.339, Penguin UK

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• Ron, you know full well Harry and I were brought up by Muggles!” said Hermione. “We didn’t hear stories like that when we were little, we heard ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and ‘Cinderella’ —” “What’s that, an illness?” asked Ron.

  J. K. Rowling

  White, Snow, Muggles

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