Kenneth Grahame Quotes

“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

topic:life strength

“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

topic:knowledge world worth

“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

topic:freedom

“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

topic:friendship trust

“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

topic:good

“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

topic:nature living

“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

topic:change travel

“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

topic:future past dream

“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

topic:society

“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

topic:work

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