"Fair speech may hide a foul heart." — J.R.R. Tolkien
"Fair speech may hide a foul heart."
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J.R.R. Tolkien
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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More Fair Quotes
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The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected.
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
— Chinua Achebe
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I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!
— Lauren Bacall
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other,…
— Javier Bardem
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other.…
— Mortimer Adler
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
— Mortimer Adler
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When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a…
— Lewis Black
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.
— Aeschylus
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man…
— Aeschylus
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