All Quotes By Tag: Gandalf

“Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard’s face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.”

“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.”

“It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.”

“But of Olórin that tale does not speak; for though he loved the Elves, he walked among them unseen, or in form as one of them, and they did not know whence came the fair visions or the promptings of wisdom that he put into their hearts. In later days he was the friend of all the Children of Ilúvatar, and took pity on their sorrows; and those who listened to him awoke from despair and put away the imaginations of darkness.”

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”

“The treacherous are ever distrustful.”