Kenneth Grahame Short Quotes

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Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong.

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Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

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Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

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For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

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All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!

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Monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.

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There's a misunderstanding somewhere, and I want to put it right. The fact is, this is a good dragon.

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Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.

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It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

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There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

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Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't;' I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

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Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

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The world has held great Heroes,
As history books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!

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Toad saw that he was trapped. They understood him, they saw through him, they had got ahead of him. His pleasant dream was shattered.

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The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As intelligent Mr. Toad!

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There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.

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I feel as if I had been through something very exciting and rather terrible, and it was just over; and yet nothing particular has happened.

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Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours.

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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

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Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.

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All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

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Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

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There is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats... or with boats.... In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter.

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It's never the wrong time to call on Toad. Early or late he's always the same fellow. Always good-tempered, always glad to see you, always sorry when you go!

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Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

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No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

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Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!

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The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or — somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

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