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

"I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"
"I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory."
"There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
"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?"