J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is a children’s fantasy novel.
It was initially published in 1937 and has since become one of the world’s best-selling novels, with an estimated 100 million readers.
I have curated a great list of quotes from The Hobbit book.
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The Hobbit Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Don’t tell us about dreams – dream dinners aren’t any good and we can’t share them.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“May the hair on your toes never fall out!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit—may the hair on his toes never fall out!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
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Quotes from The Hobbit
“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’ I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“You may not like my burglar, but please don’t damage him.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“You have nice manners for a thief and a liar,” said the dragon.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“If most of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
Famous The Hobbit Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. – Thorin” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?” said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur’s back.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
Top The Hobbit Quotes
“Thief, thief, thief! Baggins! We hates it, we hates it, we hates it forever!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Third time pays for all” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Out of the frying pan and into the fire.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Far over the misty mountains cold. To dungeons deep, and caverns old.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.
“A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
Insightful The Hobbit Quotes
“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Where there’s life there’s hope.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Please don’t cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Far over misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away, ere break of day,
To find our long-forgotten gold.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
Popular The Hobbit Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!’ he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. ‘You aren’t nearly through this adventure yet,’ he added, and that was pretty true as well.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.
“When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“I may be a burglar…but I’m an honest one, I hope, more or less.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“The road goes ever on and on.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
“If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit).
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