"Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!"
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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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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 Drunken Quotes
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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
— Lord Chesterfield
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors…
— Jon Anderson
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died…
— Anna Sewell
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I feel like a drunken man who doesn't have a drink.
— David Pleat
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Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
— Unknown Author
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Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in…
— Rob Ford
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I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace…
— Shirley MacLaine
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