5 Quotes by Dick King-Smith

And how will you afford to buy them in the first place?""I shall save up.""But that will take you years and years and years," said the twins."I've got years and years and years," said Sophie.

He felt shocked. But he also felt in some way relieved, for it is better to admit some facts, even hard, bitter facts, than to go on pretending that they don't exist.

A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.

I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen’s English.

When humans say that someone “is full of grit”, they mean full of courage. Before long the sisters were to prove that they were filled with grit in both senses of the word.