J.r.r. Tolkien, The Two Towers

Quotes

• “Mercy!"cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest ...”
• “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for ...”
• “The day will bring hope for me,"said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended i...”
• “He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long a...”
• “I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”
• “There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark.”
• “Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”
• “I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”
• “There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
• “The treacherous are ever distrustful.”
• “Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”