Christopher Robin Milne

It was not to learn about politics that I had gone to Cambridge. I was there as a mathematician, having won a…

— Christopher Robin Milne

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from…

— Christopher Robin Milne

If I seem to write most happily about the ordinary things that boys do who live in the country, it is because…

— Christopher Robin Milne

My father had always hoped that one day I would be a great cricketer, captaining the Stowe Eleven, perhaps, or even playing…

— Christopher Robin Milne

I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far…

— Christopher Robin Milne

One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you…

— Christopher Robin Milne

My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn't resent…

— Christopher Robin Milne

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to…

— Christopher Robin Milne

So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents…

— Christopher Robin Milne

In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I…

— Christopher Robin Milne

Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it, or you don't. My father…

— Christopher Robin Milne

The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally…

— Christopher Robin Milne

My father did not drink beer. He said he didn't like the taste, and I was prepared to accept that I wouldn't…

— Christopher Robin Milne

Just as the great composer is seldom also a great player, so is the great mathematician seldom also a great teacher.

— Christopher Robin Milne

I enjoyed playing with my mother. This was something she was good at. There were plenty of things she couldn't do, had…

— Christopher Robin Milne

When one is a child, one has little say in the matter: one's parents decide. Mine chose Cotchford, and they chose the…

— Christopher Robin Milne

I like to have around me the things I like today, not the things I once liked many years ago.

— Christopher Robin Milne

When a child is small, it is his mother who is mainly responsible for the way he is brought up. So it…

— Christopher Robin Milne

When I was three, my father was three. When I was six, he was six... he needed me to escape from being 50.

— Christopher Robin Milne

War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot…

— Christopher Robin Milne