Quote

I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

J. R. R. Tolkien
Age: 81 †
Born: 1892
Born: January 3
Died: 1973
Died: September 2
Author
Essayist
Historian
Illustrator
Linguist
Literary Critic
Military Officer
Poet
Teacher
Translator
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
John R. R. Tolkien
J-R-R Tolkien
Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Less
Hope
May
Burglar
Burglars
Honest

More quotes by J. R. R. Tolkien

Image
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Aure entuluva! day shall come again!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us but they are gone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Often does hatred hurt itself.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Little by little, one travels far
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
My 'Sam Gamgee' is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
All that is gold does not glitter.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!
J. R. R. Tolkien
Image
Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!
J. R. R. Tolkien