Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahamewas a British writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows, one of the classics of children's literature. He also wrote The Reluctant Dragon; both books were later adapted into Disney films, which are The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth8 March 1859
beautiful dream struggle
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.
onions sauce
Onion sauce! Onion Sauce!
differences way woods
There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out
clever toads
I'm such a clever Toad.
world indifferent wind-in-the-willows
Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.
strong doubt world
Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are strong enough to lead it!
adventure doors behind-you
Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!
home air hands
Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.
otters rely-upon path
It'll be all right, my fine fellow," said the Otter. "I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.
today feels
For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.
night bed
It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.
strong simple bones
He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.
adventure toads might
Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged more properly to the category of what-might-have-happened-had-I-only-thought-of-it-in-time-instead-of-ten-minutes-afterwards. Those are always the best and raciest adventures; and why should they not be truly ours, as much as the somewhat inadequate things that really come off?
winter animal heroic
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.