The Wind In The Willows Quotes

#1. Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows, was his favourite book.

Evelyn Waugh

#2. And all of it was dark. I could see tall shelves, and a few windows covered in thick shades that hid the starlight. In the middle of the room was a circular table with shadows gathered around it. "Who wrote The Wind in the Willows?" asked

Lemony Snicket

#3. I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English.

Dick King-Smith

#4. And you really live by the river? What a jolly life!" "By it and with it and on it and in it," said the Rat. . . . "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." - KENNETH GRAHAME, The Wind in the Willows

Kevin Fedarko

#5. As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'

Mohsin Hamid

#6. Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Terry Pratchett

#7. Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

A.A. Milne

#8. I loved The Wind in the Willows ... Walt Disney should be sued for cheapening it as he did. Imagine it, Mickey Mousing all those nice characters. I'm surprised he didn't do it with the New Testament.

Tasha Tudor

#9. You just have to be as generous as you can, but selfish enough to get your work done.

Austin Kleon

#10. It'll be all right, my fine fellow," said the Otter. "I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.

Kenneth Grahame

#11. The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

Frank Herbert

#12. I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

Helen Hunt

#13. At Ghent the wind rose.
There was a smell of rain and a heavy drag
Of wind in the hedges but not as the wind blows
Over fresh water when the waves lag
Foaming and the willows huddle and it will rain ...

Archibald MacLeish

#14. Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.

Kenneth Grahame

#15. It is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist.

William Tyndale

#16. I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.'

Tim O'Brien

#17. It takes all sorts (to make a world

Miguel De Cervantes

#18. A true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.

Neal Shusterman

#19. An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.

Kenneth Grahame

#20. Well, that boy's voice," my grandmother told me, "that boy's voice could bring those mice back to life!" And it occurs to me now that Owen's voice was the voice of all those murdered mice, coming back to life - with a vengeance.

John Irving

#21. 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.

Kenneth Grahame

#22. One might have supposed that the true act of love was to lie together and talk.

Mary Renault

#23. Lysandra had entered and passed out in her bed with no explanation for why or what she'd been doing beforehand. And since she was utterly unconscious, Aelin had just climbed into bed beside her.

Sarah J. Maas

#24. Whatever you want, Sergei. Mike meant what he said beyond the immediate context, but found he was unable to put it into words. They wouldn't come. They had no form. Whatever it was didn't even have a tangible emotion to be labeled.

Aleksandr Voinov

#25. Willows whiten, aspens quiver, Little breezes dusk and shiver.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#26. In this century, as in any other, men wore the comfortable, practical stuff, and the women wandered round expiring underneath over-decorated tea-cosies and with inadequate footwear.

Jodi Taylor

#27. Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

Deepak Chopra