The Hobbit/Quotations
From Tolkien Gateway
- "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the end of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing to sit down on or eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
- ― The Hobbit, An Unexpected Party
- "Gandalf! If you had heard only a quarter of what I have heard about him, and I have only heard very little of all there is to hear, you would be prepared for any sort of remarkable tale."
- ― The Hobbit, An Unexpected Party
- "What do you mean?" he said. "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?"
- ― Gandalf to Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, An Unexpected Party
- "Never laugh at live dragons."
- ― The Hobbit, Inside Information
- "You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benifit."
- ― Gandalf to Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit, The Last Stage