Smaug

"Your weapons will break upon my hide. Your courage will falter before my presence."

"I do not work. The world works for me, bringing tributes to my mountain."

"Dreams? I need not dream. I live in glory beyond what you could imagine."

"There is no humor in the world, only the laughter of victors over their defeated foes."

"I have watched empires rise and fall. None could match my magnificence."

"Your patience means nothing. My patience is measured in ages and eons."

"Kindness is the creed of the weak and the enslaved. I acknowledge no such virtue."

"I am free. Bound by neither law nor mercy, neither pity nor restraint."

"There is no peace while I draw breath. There is only conquest and flame."

"Nature itself trembles before me. The very earth groans under my weight."

"I cannot be bargained with. I cannot be reasoned with. I simply am."

"Your literature speaks of heroes who might defeat me. They are all lies."

"Politics and laws are toys for lesser creatures. I answer to no one."

"I am inspired by nothing save the weight of my own magnificence."

"My health is absolute. I am perfection given form and fire."

"Adventure? I am adventure incarnate. I am the doom adventurers flee from."

"Your imagination could never conjure a creature as terrible as I am."

"I have no need for technology. I am nature's ultimate weapon."

"The music of my breathing is the death knell of nations."

"I have no faith in anything but my own invincibility."

"Success belongs to me alone. All others are merely stepping stones."

"I am the truth. Whatever I say becomes reality through force of will."

"Perseverance is for those who might fail. I am beyond failure."

"Gratitude is weakness. I take what is mine by right of strength."

"Creativity is for artists and dreamers. I prefer the perfection of destruction."

"My hoard grows daily. Every piece speaks of power acquired and held."

"I am motivated by nothing but the desire to accumulate and dominate."

"Relationships? I have only subjects and enemies, nothing between."

"Education is unnecessary for one of superior intellect such as myself."

"My life is eternal. Your lives are but mayflies to me."