Quotes by : Kenneth Grahame

The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed....

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or....

The rapid nightfall of mid-December had quite beset the little village as they approached it on soft....

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

And perhaps we have reason to be very grateful that, both as children and long afterwards, we are never....

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond....

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin....

When the girl returned, some hours later, she carried a tray, with a cup of fragrant tea steaming on....

Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of....

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily,....