Quotes

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

Time does not tarry ever ... but change and growth is not in all things and places alike.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. ... But this story has entered History and the primary world; ... It has pre-eminently the "inner consistency of reality." There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. ...this story is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels, and of men--and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused.

I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

"When I meet a man who can hold his own beside me," he said with slow deliberation, "then I'll change my opinion of myself.

In his conversations with Anna Sergeyevna he expressed more strongly than ever his calm indifference to any kind of "romanticism"; but when he was alone he indignantly recognized romanticism in himself.

my lad, as far as I can see, free-thinking women are all monsters."

precious to us. And don't you tell me these fruits are worthless; the poorest dauber, un barbouilleur, the man who plays dance music for five farthings an evening, even they are of more use than you because they stand for civilization and not for.