Quotes of Kenneth Grahame - somelinesforyou

“ All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ ...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight... ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Well, well, perhaps I am a bit of a talker. A popular fellow such as I am — my friends get round me — we chaff, we sparkle, we tell witty stories — and somehow my tongue gets wagging. I have the gift of conversation. I've been told I ought to have a salon, whatever that may be. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ 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. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past — they never do; they're too busy. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spell-bound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Come along inside… We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my! ”

- 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 and moored their boat at the flowery margin of the island. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes. ”

- Kenneth Grahame

“ The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. ”

- Kenneth Grahame
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