Humor Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,'said Gimli.”

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

““Journey’s end”

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.”

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”

“Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?”

“Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boy—this boy!—knows nothin' abou'—about ANYTHING?”

“I don't like to think of it as 'stolen'. They have no proof that I didn't plan on giving it back.”

“I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”

“Victor patted my hand. 'I like you, Sky. You're a fighter.'”

“I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!”

“The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.”