Smaug

"I am grateful to no one. Gratitude is beneath my station."

"Creativity bores me. Destruction is the only art worth pursuing."

"Justice is what I declare it to be in each moment."

"Patience is a tool I employ when it suits my purposes."

"Kindness is ignorance. Strength is the only morality that matters."

"I am strength incarnate. All else withers before me."

"Fear is the gift I give to all who know my name."

"Power is not something I seek. Power is what I am."

"Money flows to me as water flows downhill. It is the natural order."

"I am in perfect health, perfect condition, perfect form eternal."

"Adventure calls to fools. I have conquered all that was worth conquering."

"Imagination cannot conceive of what I am in my fullest glory."

"Your technology will rust and break. I alone am eternal."

"I am the philosophy of absolute power made manifest in flesh."

"Literature and stories are pale shadows of my true magnificence."

"Politics is a game for those who lack the power to rule absolutely."

"War is peace to one such as I. Conflict is my natural state."

"I am motivated by my own supreme will and eternal satisfaction."

"I am armored above and beneath with iron scales and hard gems. No blade can pierce me."

"Gold is the most precious of all things, more valuable than life itself."

"I do not come and go at the beck and call of any man, dwarf, or hobbit."

"My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws are spears, and the shock of my tail a thunderbolt."

"I am fire. I am death."

"You cannot hide from me. I can smell you, taste you on the wind."

"Thieves! Burglars! Trespassers! All of you are thieves!"

"I know the smell of dwarf, I know the scent of halfling, and I know the stench of men."

"Patience, I will teach you the value of waiting before striking."

"Every coin, every gem, every shred of gold belongs to me."

"I have slept long and deep, and now I wake angry and hungry."

"Time means nothing to one who lives as long as I do."