"Handsome is as handsome does" — J.R.R. Tolkien

Handsome is as handsome does - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Handsome is as handsome does"

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien

J.R.R. Tolkien has 756 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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