Quotes · Skopia

34 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Birmingham, England✕clear

Novel · Fantasy

Not all those who wander are lost.

1954

★ 7.3

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

1963

★ 6.0

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our table.

1940

★ 5.3

Novel · Fantasy

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

1954

★ 3.9

Novel · Fantasy

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King · 1955

★ 3.9

Novel · Fantasy

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

The Hobbit · 1937

★ 3.7

If equal affection cannot be let the more loving one be me.

1957

★ 3.7

The sky is darkening like a stain; Something is going to fall like rain, And it won't be flowers.

1935

★ 3.6

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

1939

★ 3.6

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade

September 1,1939 · 1939

★ 3.6

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

1962

★ 3.6

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

1936

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.

Neville Chamberlain

1938

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

Neville Chamberlain

1938

★ 3.5

Art is born of humiliation.

1951

★ 3.5

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

The Times of London · 1967

★ 3.5

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them-the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

1973

★ 3.5

Novel · Fantasy

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring · 1954

★ 2.1

The Godhead is broken like bread. We are the pieces.

Herman Melville · 1939

★ 2.0

We must love one another or die.

September 1,1939 · 1939

★ 2.0

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