Kenneth Grahame Quotes


"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"


Citations

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen & Co., 1908, p. 43.

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Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame
  • Born: March 8, 1859
  • Died: July 6, 1932
  • Nationality: Scottish
  • Profession: Novelist

Kenneth Grahame was a British writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in the Willows, was the first. Other adaptations include the Disney films The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon.