Quote by Kenneth Grahame

Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.

— Kenneth Grahame

“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

“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

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

“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.”

— Kenneth Grahame

“Supper was finished at last, and each animal felt that his skin was now as tight as was decently safe.”

— Kenneth Grahame

The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.

— Kenneth Grahame

“What is the meaning of this gross outrage?”

— Kenneth Grahame

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

“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

It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.

— Kenneth Grahame

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