"To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry…" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face"
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien has 756 quotes on this site.
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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 Crooked Quotes
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one of 228 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
— Edward Abbey
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No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their…
— Erma Bombeck
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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees…
— Chanakya
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Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and…
— Steve Allen
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If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete,…
— Tupac Shakur
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Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my…
— Black Elk
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He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with…
— George Carlin
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He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he…
— Alfred the Great
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Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first.…
— Lewis Blaine Hershey
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