“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.””
“Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.””
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.””
“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.””
“You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.””
“He fought because he actually felt safer fighting than running.””
“My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig””
Richard Adams was a British author best known for his groundbreaking novel 'Watership Down,' published in 1972. The book, which tells the story of a group of rabbits seeking a new home, was notable fo...
“There's terrible evil in the world."It comes from men," said Holly. "All other elil do what they have to do and Frith moves them as he moves us. They live on the earth and they need food. Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.””
“Silflay hraka, u embleer rah!””
“A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.””
“There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.””
“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.””
“Sir Isaac Newton, renowned inventor of the milled-edge coin and the catflap!""The what?" said Richard."The catflap! A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention. It is a door within a door, you see, a ...""Yes," said Richard, "there was also the small matter of gravity.""Gravity," said Dirk with a slightly dismissed shrug, "yes, there was that as well, I suppose. Though that, of course, was merely a discovery. It was there to be discovered." ... "You see?" he said dropping his cigarette butt, "They even keep it on at weekends. Someone was bound to notice sooner or later. But the catflap ... ah, there is a very different matter. Invention, pure creative invention. It is a door within a door, you see.””
“We all have to meet our match sometime or other.””
“Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!””
“You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?””