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War Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
- 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…
- The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong…
- One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often…
- A criminal who, having renounced reason ... hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and…
- The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work…
- Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.
- I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the…
- It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong;…
- War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its…
- The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
- And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that…
- I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that…
- It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.
- Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts. (Ghan-buri-Ghan, of allies during war)
- The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent…
- The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if…
- He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazgûl, endowed with the…
- The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.
More War Quotes
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare
- A man can die but once. — William Shakespeare
- Go, bid the soldiers shoot. — William Shakespeare
- I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. — William Shakespeare