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The Wind in the Willows quotes

Kenneth Grahame

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“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!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“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
“The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent—I name no names.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“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.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“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!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“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.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Secrets had an immense attraction for him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket. It never is.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past—they never do; they're too busy.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“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, The Wind in the Willows
“They're all right in a way—I'm very good friends with them—pass the time of day when we meet, and all that—but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then—well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“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!” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to; this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad...” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can re-capture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and...” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or—somebody?” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“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.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“The Life Adventurous was so new a thing to him, and so thrilling; and this fresh aspect of it was so tempting” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“WHY can't fellows be allowed to do what they like WHEN they like and AS they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them?” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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