Kenneth Grahame Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame Famous Quotes & Sayings
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As one by one the scents and sounds and names of long-forgotten places come gradually back and beckon to us.
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.
Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World,' said the Rat. 'And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me.
Such a rich chapter it had been, when one came to look back on it all! With illustrations so numerous and so very highly coloured!
It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
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.
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.
Thank you kindly, dear Mole, for all your pains and trouble tonight, and especially for your cleverness this morning!' The
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed. 'The world has held great Heroes,
Hidden places, which had been mysterious mines for exploration in leafy summer, now exposed themselves and their secrets pathetically,
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.
Toad's ancestral home, won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks.
Stopped rowing as the liquid run of that glad piping broke on him like a wave, caught him up, and possessed him utterly.
An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.
and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week's washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was
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.
SONG. . . . BY TOAD. (Composed by himself.) OTHER COMPOSITIONS. BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . . COMPOSER.
And let each one of the crowd try and shout it very loud, In honour of an animal of whom you're justly proud, For it's Toad's - great - day!
the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. He
and I shall keep a pony-chaise to jog about the country in, just as I used to in the good old days, before I got restless, and
This is the end of everything' (he said), 'at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular
The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air.
One member of the company was still awaited; the shepherd-boy for the nymphs to woo, the knight for whom the ladies waited at the window,
Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.
They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls.
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.
It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.
There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out
Neither had any desire for talk; the glow and glory of existing on this perfect morning were satisfaction full and sufficient