My Favorite Quotes from The Hobbit

I LOVE THE HOBBIT. It's my favorite book and it's the best of the things that exist, and so I've put together a list of quotes from the book. Honestly, it's only a third of what I have highlighted or underlined from my multiple readings (3 times? 4 times?). What is highlighted in this post, though, are the ones that are my absolute favorite quotes or ideas from the book.

THIS IS MY FAVORITE BOOK EVER AND HERE'S WHY:

• You could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him.
• He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained—well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end.
• There is little or no magic about them , except the ordinary everyday sort...
• He suddenly felt he would go without bed and breakfast to be thought fierce. As for little fellow bobbing on the mat it almost made him really fierce.
• The explanation did not seem to explain.
• baggages, packages, parcels, and paraphernalia.
• I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. [you may need context for that one]
• Even decent enough dwarves like Thorin and his friends think them foolish (which is a very foolish thing to think)
• He was as noble and as fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
• His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
• You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
• “Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!”
• Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.
• Some had hardly been able to breathe at all ( long noses are sometimes useful you see ) and some had been more poisoned.
• [about riding barrels in a river] All the same it was like trying to ride, without bridle or stirrups, a round - bellied pony that was always thinking of rolling on the grass 
• “I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen.” “So I can well believe,” said Smaug, “but that is hardly your usual name.” “I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.” “Lovely titles!” sneered the dragon. “But lucky numbers don’t always come off.” “I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.” “These don’t sound so creditable,” scoffed Smaug. “I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider,” went on Bilbo beginning to be pleased with his riddling.
• Never laugh at live dragons.
• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
• Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit?

If you want to berate me for missing one, message me!

-Luke