Richard Adams Quotes

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• All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must…
• You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a…
• Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for…
• There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that…
• At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader…
• To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that…
• Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
• Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.
• We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
• I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can…
• Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed…
• Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?
• The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
• Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate.
• If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.
• I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not…
• Our children's children will hear a good story.
• I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.
• People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes…
• A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

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