This article contains forty Hobbit quotes from the book and film series.

Bilbo Baggins is a reluctant hero, a furry-footed, garden-loving, homebody unaccustomed to being the main character of his own story. He likes his comfort zone, and leaving The Shire (a region wrapped in meadows and snug blankets of green) seems scary. But when Gandalf, the wandering wizard, arrives with an opportunity for Bilbo to go on an adventure, Bilbo does go (with much hesitation and equal amounts of courage). He sees the Misty Mountains and the secret valley of Rivendell. He smells the pine trees that fill up forests and surround the glades. 

Bilbo says yes to adventure, and his yes is a reminder to take the trip, go far, be curious, meet new people (dwarves and elves and Gollum, included), and make memories that last a lifetime. 

Here are forty Hobbit quotes about adventure, bravery, and being open to new possibilities. These quotes are from The Hobbit movie trilogy (directed by Peter Jackson) and novel by J.R.R. Tolkien (one of my favorite fantasy stories of all time). 

40 Hobbit Quotes To Inspire Your Next Adventure

• “I’m looking for someone to share in an adventure.” – Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “No. No. No – Wait – We do not want any adventures here, thank you. Not today.” – Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things. Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them.” – Bilbo Baggins
• “I will go so far as to send you on this adventure. Very amusing for me, very good for you – and profitable too, very likely, if you ever get over it.” – Gandalf

• “The dark filled all the room, and the fire died down, and the shadows were lost, and still they played on.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “He wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “The Took side had won. He suddenly felt he would go without bed and breakfast to be thought fierce.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

• “This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “I’m going on an adventure!” – Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “To the end of his days Bilbo could never remember how he found himself outside, without a hat, a walking-stick or any money, or anything that he usually took when he went out; leaving his second breakfast half-finished and quite unwashed-up, pushing his keys into Gandalf’s hands, and running as fast as his furry feet could carry him down the lane, past the great Mill, across The Water, and then on for a mile or more.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Going from there was the bravest thing he ever did.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

• “There are no safe paths in this part of the world.” – Gandalf
• “If you want to get to the other side. You must either go through or give up your quest.” – Gandalf
• “I am not going to allow you to back out now, Mr. Baggins. I am ashamed of you for thinking of it.” – Gandalf
• “You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.” – Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)

• “‘There is a long road yet.” – Gandalf
• “‘Can you promise that I’ll come back?’ / ‘No. And if you do, you will not be the same.'” – Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!'” – Bilbo Baggins
• “You aren’t nearly through this adventure yet.” – Bilbo Baggins

• “‘Where did you go to, if I may ask?’ said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. / ‘To look ahead,’ said he. / ‘And what brought you back in the nick of time?’ / ‘Looking behind,’ said he.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.” – Thorin Oakenshield
• “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – Thorin Oakenshield
• “Loyalty, honor, a willing heart, I can ask for no more than that.” – Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)

• “The world is not in your books and maps. It is out there.” – Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit?” – Gandalf
• “You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!” – Gandalf
• “Now they rode away amid songs of farewell and good speed, with their hearts ready for more adventure, and with a knowledge of the road they must follow over the Misty Mountains to the land beyond.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

• “It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” – Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.” – Gandalf (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.” – Gandalf

• “True courage is not knowing how to take life, but when to spare it.” – Gandalf
• “Look, I know you doubt me, I know you always have. And you’re right. I often think of Bag End. I miss my books. And my armchair. And my garden. See, that’s where I belong. That’s home. That’s why I came back, cause you don’t have one. A home. It was taken from you. But I will help you take it back if I can.” – Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “While there’s life there’s hope!” – Bilbo Baggins

• “‘I picked it up in Beorn’s garden.’ / ‘You’ve carried it all this way?’ / ‘I’m going to plant it in my garden, in Bag End.’ / ‘It’s a poor prize to take back to The Shire.’ / ‘One day, it’ll grow. And every time I look at it, I’ll remember. Remember everything that happened: the good, the bad, and how lucky I am that I made it home.'” – Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield (The Hobbit: The Battle Of Five Armies, 2014)
• “You are not the hobbit that you were.” – Gandalf
• “Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “My dear Frodo, you asked me once if I had told you everything there was to know about my adventures. And while I can honestly say I’ve told you the truth, I may not have told you all of it. I am old, Frodo. I am not the same hobbit as I once was. It is time for you to know what really happened.” – Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 2012)
• “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

Did you enjoy these Hobbit? What are your favorite Hobbit quotes? Let us know in the comments below!