Smaug

"I am the standard by which all other creatures are measured and found wanting."

"Nature itself bows before my will and power."

"Your health fails, your strength wanes, yet I grow only stronger."

"I am the technology of death, perfected through ages."

"Your politics mean nothing; only might determines right."

"Gratitude is a weakness I have never possessed nor required."

"I create nothing, yet all creation serves me."

"Your literature speaks of heroes; I am the villain that ends all tales."

"I am the kindness that ends suffering through death."

"Relationships are chains; I alone am unbound."

"I work only to accumulate more of what is already mine."

"My adventure is eternal; yours ends in fire."

"I inspire nothing but dread, the most honest of emotions."

"You cannot understand patience as I do—eons teach all lessons."

"Humor is what the powerless use to mock their betters; I simply destroy."

"My beauty lies in perfection of power—all else is irrelevant."

"I have no family, no blood, no bonds of any kind that would weaken me."

"Even in death, I will haunt this land as a specter of vengeance."

"Your courage is admirable but ultimately futile against my might."

"I am the answer to every question: death and destruction."

"I am the greatest and chiefest of calamities. I am Smaug."

"My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws are spears, my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane."

"I smell you. I see you. There is no escape."

"Gold! It calls to me like nothing else in this world."

"They have stolen my treasure, and for that they shall burn."

"I am armored above and below with iron scales and hard gems."

"Do you think I do not know the smell of dwarf? Your kind reeks of it."

"I have slept long, but I do not sleep forever."

"Every coin, every gem, every piece of gold is mine alone."

"You speak of courage? I am courage incarnate."