The quotations of

Kenneth Grahame

British novelist

1859–1932

8 quotes, most often on Animals.

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
- Work
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
- Nature
Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing⁠—absolute nothing⁠—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
- Advice
- Happiness
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIIn context
- Animals
- Poetry
“People come⁠—they stay for a while, they flourish, they build⁠—and they go. It is their way. But we remain. There were badgers here, I’ve been told, long before that same city ever came to be. And now there are badgers here again. We are an enduring lot, and we may move out for a time, but we wait, and are patient, and back we come. And so it will ever be.”
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IVIn context
It takes all sorts to make a world.
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IVIn context
- Character
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IXIn context
- Food
The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter XIn context
- Comedy
- Pride

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