The Wind in the Willows Quotes
Children's books, English novels
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“He was indeed an altered Toad!”
“Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong.”
“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”
“All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!”
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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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“Toad saw that he was trapped. They understood him, they saw through him, they had got ahead of him. His pleasant dream was shattered.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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!”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”