Dwarves Quotes - Page 6

• "Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Names, Different

  "A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3)". Book by George R. R. Martin, August 8, 2000.

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• A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city.

  Terry Pratchett

  Moving, Cities, Police

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  People, Imagination, Way

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid.

  William Shakespeare

  Senior, Boys, Giants

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

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• That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Maps, Peter

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• He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.

  John Bellairs

  Men, Littles, Scared

  John Bellairs, Edward Gorey, Mercer Mayer (1998). “The best of John Bellairs”

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• She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.

  Lisa McMann

  School, Giving, Janie

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Style, Important, Gone

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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