Quotes by Kenneth Grahame

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.

Busy

Holiday

Vacation

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a ‘cloop!’ and the May-fly was visible no more

Blood

Fashion

Sea

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

Imagination

Matter

People

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

Badgers

Dinner

Hate

Don’t, for goodness’ sake, keep on saying ‘Don’t’; I hear so much of it, and it’s monotonous, and makes me tired.

Complaining

Sake

Tired

Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

Air

Hands

Home

I’m such a clever Toad.

Clever

Toads

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

Restriction

Social

Vices

It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.

Hero

Home

Song

It’ll be all right, my fine fellow,” said the Otter. “I’m coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there’s a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.

Needs

Otters

Rely Upon

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Air

Animal

Badgers

Bed

Beer

Blood

Break Out

Busy

Clever

Complaining

Dinner

Doors

Ems

Eye

Fashion

Fighting

Fishing

Good Friend

Hands

Hate

Hero

Holiday

Home

Horse

Imagination

Information

Instinct

Labels

Long

Matter

Might

Moles

Monkeys

Moon

Morning

Names

Needs

Night

Onions

Otters

People

Powerful

Rely Upon

Restriction

Rivers

Running

Sake

Sauce

Sea

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Quotes by Kenneth Grahame

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.

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a ‘cloop!’ and the May-fly was visible no more

As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that they are so sadly to seek.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

Don’t, for goodness’ sake, keep on saying ‘Don’t’; I hear so much of it, and it’s monotonous, and makes me tired.

Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.

I’m such a clever Toad.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

It’ll be all right, my fine fellow,” said the Otter. “I’m coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there’s a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.

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