The best Quotes by Gandalf

True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

So do all who live to see such times; but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Hobbits really are amazing creatures. You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Hobbits & Harfoots

And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay.

The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Small Things

Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey

Bilbo Baggins

Death is just another path. One that we all must take.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Bilbo: "No, thank you. We don't want any more visitors, well wishers or distant relations!"
Gandalf: "And what about very old friends?"

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Intelligence

I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Crying & Tears

A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand - that and such hope as I bring.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Defense

I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Do not mention Frodo. Or the Ring. And say nothing of Aragorn either. In fact, it's better if you don't speak at all, Peregrin Took.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - to Pippin

Pippin Took

Gandalf? That was what they used to call me. Gandalf the Grey. That was my name. I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and every day was as long as a life age of The Earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. I've been sent back until my task is done.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Fool of a Took! Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - to Pippin

In in Doubt always follow your nose.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - to Merry

He hates and loves the ring as he hates and loves himself. He will never be rid of his need for it.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - about Gollum

There is only one Lord of the Ring. Only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Saruman: "We must join with Sauron. It would be wise, my friend."
Gandalf: "Tell me, friend, when did Saruman the Wise abandon reason for madness?"

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Saruman

Bilbo Baggins! Do not take me for some conjurer of cheap tricks. I am not trying to rob you. I'm trying to help you.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Frodo: "Before you came along, we Bagginses were very well thought of. Never had any adventures or did anything unexpected."
Gandalf: "If you're referring to the incident with the dragon - I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door."

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Life in the wide world goes on much as it has this past age. Full of its own comings and goings. Scarcely even aware of the existence of the Hobbits. For which I am very thankful.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Hobbits & Harfoots

Because 10,000 Orcs now stand between Frodo and Mount Doom. I've sent him to his death.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Far too eager and curious for a Hobbit. Most unnatural.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - to Frodo

Hobbits & Harfoots

Farewell my brave Hobbits. My work is now finished. Here at last, on the shores of the sea comes the end of our Fellowship.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

There never was much hope. Just a fool's hope.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Be silent! Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth! I haven't passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Despair

The battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin. All our hopes now lie with two little Hobbits.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

You have become a fool, Saruman, and yet pitiable. You might still have turned away from folly and evil, and have been of service. But you choose to stay and gnaw the ends of your old plots. Stay then! But I warn you, you will not easily come out again. Not unless the dark hands of the east stretch out to take you!

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Saruman

Quotes about Gandalf

Farewell, o Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!

The Hobbit

I told Gandalf I would keep you safe. And safe is where I'll keep you.

Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

We long have feared that under Caradhras a terror slept. But had I known that the Dwarves had stirred up this evil in Moria again, I would have forbidden you to pass the northern borders, you and all that went with you. And if it were possible, one would say that at the last Gandalf fell from wisdom into folly, going needlessly into the net of Moria.

Celeborn in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Sam: "How do you know about Gandalf?"
Bucky: "I read 'The Hobbit' in 1937, when it first came out."

Bucky Barnes in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

The Hobbit

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I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone. I choose a mortal life.

Arwen in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - to Aragorn

Love declerations

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Small Things Fate & Destiny

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Courage Adventures Feet

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Loyalty Darkness

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pain Time

Gimli: "I never thought I'd die fighting side by side with an elf."
Legolas: "What about side by side with a friend?"
Gimli: "Aye, I could do that."

Legolas in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Gimli

For it is easier to shout "stop!" than to do it.

Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

If this is love, I don't want it. Take it away, please! Why does it hurt so much?

Tauriel in The Hobbit - The Battle of the Five Armies

Breakup

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Ian Mckellen

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

Your love of the the Halfling's leaf has clearly slowed your mind.

Saruman in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - to Gandalf

I don't want to be in a battle, but waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

Pippin Took in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

War Waiting

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