Kenneth Grahame Quotes & Sayings
18 most famous Kenneth Grahame quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a Scottish novelist who passed away on 6 July, 1932.
“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.”
“Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.”
“There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
“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!”
“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.”
“Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.”
“The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.”
“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.”
“Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.”
“When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.”
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