Kenneth Grahame Quotes


There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.


Citations

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen & Co., 1908, p. 9.

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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.