Browsing Quotes By J.R.R. Tolkien
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What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:07 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the RingsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It must be so, Sam, when things are in danger: someone has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the RingsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the RingsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:05 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the RingsPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Never laugh at a live dragon.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The HobbitPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wizards after all are wizards.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The HobbitPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Deserves [death]! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment, for even the wise cannot see all ends.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 11:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Nearly all marriages, even the happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:50 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienSource: The HobbitPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:48 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
Speaker: J.R.R. TolkienPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 9:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!