175 Quotes by Richard Adams

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah,” replied Bigwig.

Oh, Fairy Wogdog!′ cried Rowsby Woof, dribbling and piddling all over the gravel. ‘Ah, what elegance! What aristocratic distinction! Can that really be decayed cat that I smell? With a delicate overtone of rotten camel! Ah, the gorgeous East!

Like children in a dark room, like wayfarers passing a graveyard at night, the four men in the canoe filled the surrounding darkness with the fear from their own hearts.

Rabbits have enough enemies as it is. They ought not to make more among themselves.

You may think it’s a wonderful thing to be saved by Lord Frith in his power. How many rabbits has that happened to, I wonder? But I tell you, it was far more frightening than being chased by the Efrafans.

But he – he hated pity as a cat hates water.

Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!

Literal religion is full of pitfalls.

We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers.