1,027 Quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.

It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish.

For nothing is evil in the beginning.

It's like things are in the world. Hopes fail. An end comes. We have only a little time to wait now.

It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.

The burned hand teaches best.

Deserves it! 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 judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.