Animal Quote by Celia Thaxter

“When Toad found himself immured in a dank and noisome dungeon, and knew that all the grim darkness of a medieval fortress lay between…

— Kenneth Grahame

I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another. With bats, weasels, worms...I rejoice in the kinship. Even the caterpillar I can love,…

— Theodore Roethke

“Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

— Dave Barry

“Found in a small stone cave bitten from the roadside, stitchless save for his great outsized boots and a plague of flies, fat on…

— Nick Cave

Toads are conservative animals, I think, and not much given to expecting the best from fortune. Some weeks ago, well before the end of…

— Henry Mitchell

And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.

— Joan Collins

“a toad in plainest brown, festooned with bumps.”

— Eric Forsberg

The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty…

— Kenneth Grahame

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

— William Joyce

She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of…

— Emily Bronte

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle