Relationships and Family

I love you. I used to pity your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. J. R. R.

 

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue. J. R. R.

 

The treacherous are ever distrustful. J. R. R.

 

His honour rooted in dishonor stood, and faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. J. R. R.

 

Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to. J. R. R.

 

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. J. R. R.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Than never to have loved at all.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning .

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

 

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life.

One should stick by one’s own soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge, one is the worst of traitors.