Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“O, all right!' said the Toad, readily. 'Anything to oblige. Though why on earth you should want to have a Banquet in the morning I cannot understand. But you know I do not live to please myself, but merely to… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
“The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really believed in a pterodactyl; but every… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
“Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.” — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
Slowly, but with no doubt or hesitation whatever, and in something of a solemn expectancy, the two animals passed through the broken tumultuous water… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
“In silence they landed, and pushed through the blossom and scented herbage and undergrowth that led up to the level ground, till they stood… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
“This day was only the first of man similar ones for the emancipated Mole, each of them longer and fuller of interest as the… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
“As he hurried along, eagerly anticipating the moment when he would be at home again among the things he knew and liked, the Mole… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
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… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share
