More quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for."
"Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed."
"Mercy!"cried Gandalf. "If the giving of knowledge is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more should you like to know?""The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-Earth and Over-heave and of the Sundering Seas,"laughed Pippin. "Of course! What less?"
"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"