The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
Lord Byron
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
LEMONY SNICKET The road goes ever on and on
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON And yet methinks the older that one grows
Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
- Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea!
Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.
-...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN My days are in the yellow leaf;
The flowers and fruits of love are gone;
The worm, the canker,...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and dange...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The two things that came out clearly were the sense of reality in the background and the mythical va...
C.S. LEWIS Being different is not just a great thing, it is a blessing!
SUJISH KANDAMPULLY Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast.'
The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph...
WILLIAM GOLDING They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do a...
PHILIPPA BOYENS You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Our houses are protected by the good Lord and a gun, and you might meet 'em both if you show up here...
JOSH THOMPSON You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Through shadow,
to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight."- "Excerpt from Edge Of Night ...
JRR TOLKEIN I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN How are we supposed to get in?”
Stella kicked the metal shutter.
“Fool of a Took!” ...
MICHELLE HODKIN All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
NATHAN KRESS I'm sorry I brought this upon you, my boy. I'm sorry you must carry this burden. I'm sorry for every...
LORD OF THE RINGS All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old who are strong do not wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as y...
LORD OF THE RINGS Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death i...
LORD OF THE RINGS How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to und...
LORD OF THE RINGS I'm naked in the dark...there's nothing...nothing...
LORD OF THE RINGS I can avoid being seen if I wish, but to disappear entirely, that is a rare gift.
LORD OF THE RINGS Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tem...
LORD OF THE RINGS My Precious - Gollum and the One Ring
LORD OF THE RINGS Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all wh...
LORD OF THE RINGS The mines are no place for a pony, even one so brave as Bill. Bye-bye Bill.
LORD OF THE RINGS They will find the Ring, and kill the one who carries it.
LORD OF THE RINGS So you have chosen.....Death.
LORD OF THE RINGS ...But the hearts of men are easily corrupted... And the ring of power has a will of its own.
LORD OF THE RINGS PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way.
GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end her...
LORD OF THE RINGS Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The real Stephen Colbert is a practicing Catholic. He teaches Sunday school. He can recite chapter a...
KEVIN BLEYER Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars o...
LORD BYRON Not all that have fallen are vanquished.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN It is but a shadow and thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.
LOED OF THE RINGS The stag’s enormous head turned slightly—toward the wagon, toward the small window.
T...
SARAH J. MAAS But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Gollum merece la muerte. La merece, sin duda. Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo did not destroy the Ring; Gollum did. This is something he would always be reminded of, especi...
STEVE BIVANS Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings. It’s the meeting w...
ANDY WEIR America indeed has become a progressive nation, if we understand "progressive" to mean progressing a...
RON BRACKIN No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
PETER DINKLAGE Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strang...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three,...
MONTY PYTHON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one...
LORD BYRON They never fail who die in a great cause.
LORD BYRON Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Muchos de los que viven merecen morir y algunos de los que mueren merecen la vida. ¿Puedes devolver...
GANDALS Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
IAN MCKELLEN You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees...
JOHN KEATS Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art,
For there thy...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO It's the deep breath before the plunge.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they ...
JUNOT DíAZ I tried reading The Lord of the Rings books. I got about fifty pages in... I got tired of reading th...
MIKE STOKLASA I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago," I said at once.
"El...
JIM BUTCHER Chasing ghosts while pursued by daemons...
GAIL CARRIGER He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs we...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I am saying the choices we make in captivity are not always the choices we make in freedom. And thus...
CASSANDRA CLARE From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuous...
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The Lord seeks to establish status quo before His return. He is gathering His sheep, His birds, His ...
HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN -SENIOR LEGAL CONSULTANT & AUTHOR ( GREATEST OF ALL ROMANCES, YOUR POTTER'S There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, / Are like gold nails in temples to hang tro...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart
LORD BYRON Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep: and yet a third of Life is passed in sleep
LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
LORD BYRON This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
LORD BYRON What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...
LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
LORD BYRON Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still
LORD BYRON Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage...
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