The Hobbit

"I do not forgive. I do not forget. I do not spare."

"Knowledge of weakness is the first step toward exploiting it."

"You dare enter my mountain? You dare take from me?"

"I am what dreams become when they hunger for power."

"Beauty means nothing—only dominion and wealth matter."

"The very earth trembles at my approach."

"I need no counsel, no advice from creatures smaller than myself."

"To be alive is to desire, to desire is to accumulate, to accumulate is to rule."

"I earned this treasure through conquest and cunning."

"There is no escape from my wrath, no hiding place deep enough."

"I am eternal; you are but a brief flicker of life."

"Your kind are but insects to be crushed beneath my foot."

"I remember every piece, every last coin of my hoard."

"Why should I share my treasure with lesser beings?"

"Loneliness is the price of grandeur; none can stand beside the mightiest."

"The world bows before me, for I am the greatest and the most terrible of creatures."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I am fire. I am death."

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

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

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

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

"I will finish what I have started."

"The world needs heroes, even if they are small."