Quotes - Will Jones (willjones) (Kent, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 57

#1

“It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

#2

“It’s not all peeling grapes, being a handmaiden,” said Ptraci. “The first lesson we learn is, when the master has had a long hard day it is not the best time to suggest the Congress of the Fox and the Persimmon. Who says you have to do anything?”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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#3

“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

tags: life, singing

48 likes

#4

“The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

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#5

“Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

tags: dolphins, humour, ulterior-motive

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#6

“People needed to believe in gods, if only because it was so hard to believe in people.”
― Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

57 likes

#7

“Where there's life there's hope.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

1799 likes

#8

“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

835 likes

#9

“Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

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#10

“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

tags: bookshop, bookstore, discworld, read, reading

1488 likes

#11

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21821 likes

#12

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

21624 likes

#13

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

12468 likes

#14

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: faith

8675 likes

#15

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: benediction, gift, light

3048 likes

#16

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: capital-punishment, death-penalty, gandalf, j-r-r-tolkien, lord-of-the-rings

1882 likes

#17

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: lord-of-the-rings, sam-gamgee

1687 likes

#18

“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

tags: faramir

1224 likes

#19

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: gandalf, grief

5927 likes

#20

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
"A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: caged, fear, gender-roles

2518 likes

#21

“Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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#22

“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

tags: death, end, journey, life, path

361 likes

#23

“We shouldn't have to go around congratulating each other for behaving with basic human dignity.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

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#24

“Senlin did not believe in that sort of love: sudden and selfish and insatiable. Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more like an education: it was deep and subtle and never complete.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

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#25

“It is easier to accept who you’ve become than to recollect who you were.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

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#26

“Never let a rigid itinerary discourage you from an unexpected adventure.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

tags: adventure

30 likes

#27

“Learning starts with failure.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

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#28

“I’m counting on greed and egotism, forces that are as reliable as gravity”
― Josiah Bancroft, Senlin Ascends

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#29

“We are, each of us, a multitude. I am not the man I was this morning, nor the man of yesterday. I am a throng of myself queued through time. We are, gentle reader, each a crowd within a crowd.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

tags: change, life

55 likes

#30

“The man or woman who is rarely lost, rarely discovers anything new.”
― Josiah Bancroft, Arm of the Sphinx

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