Kenneth Grahame Quotes

“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

“Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket. It never is.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

topic:work

“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

topic:past

“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

“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

topic:dream

“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

topic:danger

“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

topic:independence

“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

topic:adventure

“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

topic:adventure

“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

topic:way

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