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A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?
The dwarfs can turn lead into gold ... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!
Smaller plates discourage gluttony. But so does dining with dwarves.
Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority
I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware ... Beware ...
You've got the makings of a first-class dwarf!
Dwarves' tongues run on when speaking of their handiwork, they say.
Ken steepled his fingers and gazed thoughtfully up at the ceiling. 'Dwarves have done very well for us in primetime.
Orion nodded, then asked, "Dwarf cheese?"
"Cheese made by dwarfs."
"Oh," said Orion, relieved. "They make it. It's not actually ... "
"No. What a horrible thought."
"Exactly.
Physically, man is a dwarf; mentally, man is a giant!
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
There's always the dwarf bread.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two
The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!
Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf.
Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit - may the hair on his toes never fall out!
Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
Lizaveta was a dwarfish creature, "not five foot within a wee bit,
Giants in
Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies
In their performance.
I thought dwarfs loved gold," said Angua.
"They just say that to get it into bed.
Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
It's a new era at Disney. From now on, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be known as Person of No Color and the Seven Vertically Challenged Individuals.
The insane little dwarf, Bush.
It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ...
Grumpy is her favorite dwarf.
As to the black dwarfs, they wouldn't allow anyone to look into them, because what is inside them is truly horrible. That is why they want everything on Earth to be as black and dark as they are themselves.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Dwarves sat on stoops, clapping and cheering as we ran by. A few of them recorded videos of us on uniquely crafted smartphones. I figured our attempted getaway would go viral on the Dwarven Internet, famous among Internets.
As dwarves, we are committed to wiping out evil wherever it occurs and we shall not tire in our duty.
Still, I take your point. I have a deal to learn about being a dwarf. Perhaps you will be good enough to teach me, in between the jousting and the pig-riding.
themselves shrinking until they were
I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.
I was the eighth dwarf. Sneaky.
What sort of gods make rats and plagues and dwarfs?
A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the further of the two.
It is impossible to accommodate everyone and twice as impossible to please all the dwarfs.
Life is short. But so are midgets.
I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who
Hold him till we get there, comrade," said another, who then appeared to reconsider. "Hang on, how big is he?"
The dwarf examined David. "Not very big," he said. "Dwarf and a half. Dwarf and two-thirds at most.
Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter;
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
The only way to be a giant in this universe is to realise first that you are a dwarf yet!
thee times their size
One of those was occupied by a dwarf. Clean-shaved and pink-cheeked, with a mop of chestnut hair, a heavy brow, and a squashed nose, he perched on a high stool with a wooden spoon in hand, contemplating a bowl of purplish gruel with red-rimmed eyes. Ugly little bastard, Tyrion thought. The
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
A lot of parts written for people of my size, dwarfs, are either foolish idiots or, like, these sages that are all-knowing, and they're very, sort of, come-to-them-for-answers.
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself.
I was a modern young woman, fearless and capable (with mace spray in my robe's right pocket), and I didn't care who knew it. Attitude was everything when dealing with dwarfs.
We must not remind them that giants walk the Earth.
We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
If walls could keep us small, peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants," said Ser Jorah. "I've seen huge men born in hovels, and dwarfs who dwelt in castles.
Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
The LP actress Linda Hunt once wrote, 'Dwarfism, after all, isn't like cancer or heart disease. It isn't fatal, and it isn't even an illness. It is physical, though, and inescapable. You don't get over it. It is you. But you aren't it, and that's an important distinction.
Every dwarf is a bastard in his father's eyes.
grandmothers. Elephants
When giants fought, ants were crushed.
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf ... Cupid.
The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.
Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.
Do you want to tell me what you're doing up here in the middle of the woods?" He gazed at her milky white skin, dark hair, and wide eyes. "If you're looking for the seven dwarfs, they live in the next forest over.
And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen ... "
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact ... human?
Tall and skinny, with arms and legs sticking out at odd angles, as if [they] were made of drinking straws instead of flesh and bone.
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
Whenever I'm tempted to hug a dwarf, that's usually a sign I need to move along.
What can I do for you, my dwarves?" he said. "Kili at your service!" said the one. "And Fili!" added the other; and they both swept off their blue hoods and bowed.
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.
stood still and stared at them. 'Why do you stand gaping there?' cried the dwarf, and his ashen-grey face became copper-red with rage. He was still cursing when a loud growling
The big rippled sheets of glass were taken out of their sacking and lowered from the back of the wagon, and for a few giddy moments a troupe of rubbery dwarves and etiolated giants shimmied and shivered in those depthless caskets. of light.
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.
Yes, but - but maybe I'm just tall for my height," said Carrot desperately. "After all, if you can have short humans, can't you have tall dwarfs?
They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.
A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes
will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
But why did you upgrade me?" "Because you're not a skinny dwarf." "Is that an insult?" "Is it? Would you like to be a skinny dwarf? Because even though you're acting like Grumpy -
They are ruby-colored, aren't they?" he said. "Well, they're red," said Magrat. "Is red all right?" "They've got to be red." All the other dwarfs nodded. "It's no good if they're not red." Magrat gave him a blank look and shut the door.
Scrawny little mundane bastard.
Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man and his wife are silent and confused.] Tucker: HUNDREDS OF THEM!
What are men to rocks and mountains?
Goats and monkies!
The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller than his brethren by the breadth of a human fingernail.
How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle's egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?
Monkey People? They
What Do Schoolteachers and Sumo Wrestlers Have in Common?
And no-one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.
Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.
English dragoons
Tolkien made dwarf sign language because, you know, it's too loud to talk in the mines.
The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant.
I fear I our good dwarf has lost his taste for adventure. I managed to get word to him, thinking he might come along with me for the sport of it. He sent back a message. All it said was 'Humph!
A drow and a dwarf, a dwarf and a drow, a hunnerd times better'n a fox and a cow! Bwahaha! Athrogate added with unbridled enthusiasm.
With their ship, the Horse, They ply the sea of grass, They stalk the walking mountains, With stones they make their beds.