18 Quotes by Michael Bond

If you really want something in this world,' said Olga simply, 'you'll never get it by sitting down and waiting. But if you go out and do things there's no knowing where you'll end up.

I write it,you read it,we share the joy.

I'm not a criminal,” said Paddington, hotly. “I'm a bear!

Oh well, bears will be bears,” said Mr Brown.

From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.

[Paddington] looked up to see that Mrs Brown had been joined by a little girl, with laughing blue eyes and long, fair hair.

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world.

In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.