Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or dragons:
“My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pikes in the cabin still,
With Hessian blood on the blade.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (18461925)
“Hermann and Humbert are alike only in the sense that two dragons painted by the same artist at different periods of his life resemble each other. Both are neurotic scoundrels, yet there is a green lane in Paradise where Humbert is permitted to wander at dusk once a year; but Hell shall never parole Hermann.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)