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

"The treacherous are ever distrustful."
"He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed."
"The day will bring hope for me,"said Aragorn. "Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?""So the minstrels say,"said Éomer."Then let us defend it, and hope!"
"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 have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory."