Idril Tolkien Quotes & Sayings

Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice. — Ashly Lorenzana

For I had expected always
Some brightness to hold in trust,
Some final innocence
To save from dust — Stephen Spender

For a writer to put his own intellectual musings, which he might sell for a low price as essays, into the mouths of artificially constructed characters which are more remunerative when issued as people in a novel is good economics, perhaps, but does not make literature. — Ernest Hemingway,

When you open up 'Instagram,' you need to know that you're seeing the real Tony Hawk, the real Taylor Swift, the real Burberry. — Kevin Systrom

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something. — Mel Gibson

No one is too small for anything. You just have to think big! — Kathryn Lasky

We have all had times ... when we have seen things from God's standpoint and have wanted to stay there; but God will never allow us to stay there ... [I]t is in the valley where we live for the glory of God. — Oswald Chambers

Love is an immortal lie! — Nitya Prakash

A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Our ship might come in, but the pier will break. — Megan Linski

Then Maeglin bowed low and took Turgon for lord and king, to do all his will; but thereafter he stood silent and watchful, for the bliss and splendour of Gondolin surpassed all that he had imagined from the tales of his mother, and he was amazed by the strength of the city and the hosts of its people, and the many things strange and beautiful that he beheld. Yet to none were his eyes more often drawn than to Idril the King's daughter, who sat beside him; for she was golden as the Vanyar, her mother's kindred, and she seemed to him as the sun from which all the King's hall drew its light. — J.R.R. Tolkien