159 Quotes by Kenneth Grahame

And let each one of the crowd try and shout it very loud, In honour of an animal of whom you’re justly proud, For it’s Toad’s – great – day!

The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. “I perceive this to be Old Burton,” he remarked approvingly. “Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks.”

Thence, even as he gazed, a tiny column of smoke rose straight up into the still air.

At last they heard the sound of slow shuffling footsteps approaching the door from the inside. It seemed, as the Mole remarked to the Rat, like some one walking in carpet slippers that were too large for him and down at heel; which was intelligent of Mole, because that was exactly what it was.

Packing the basket was not quite such pleasant work as unpacking the basket. It never is.

The stoats are on guard, at every point, and they make the best sentinels in the world.

Presently I somehow found myself singing. The words were mere nonsense- irresponsible babble... Humanity would have rejected it with scorn. Nature, everywhere singing in the same key, recognized and accepted it without a flicker of dissent.

The moon, serene and detached in a cloudless sky, did what she could, though so far off, to help them in their quest; till her hour came and she sank earthwards reluctantly, and left them, and mystery once more held field and river.

Such a rich chapter it had been, when one came to look back on it all! With illustrations so numerous and so very highly coloured!