Quotes by Richard Adams, Watership Down

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A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. — Richard Adams, Watership Down
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. — Richard Adams, Watership Down
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 firs — Richard Adams, Watership Down
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his — Richard Adams, Watership Down
Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must b — Richard Adams, Watership Down
This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert t — Richard Adams, Watership Down
Bargains, bargains, El-ahrairah," he said. "There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or so — Richard Adams, Watership Down
They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else. — Richard Adams, Watership Down
You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay. — Richard Adams, Watership Down
The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of — Richard Adams, Watership Down
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether — Richard Adams, Watership Down
I'm sick and tired of it," he said, "It's the same all the time. 'These are my claws, so this is my cowslip." 'These are — Richard Adams, Watership Down
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain — Richard Adams, Watership Down
Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. — Richard Adams, Watership Down
Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly,he ¯nds that his fault has been overlooked or forgi — Richard Adams, Watership Down
Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But the — Richard Adams, Watership Down
Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That — Richard Adams, Watership Down
Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withst — Richard Adams, Watership Down
[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself. — Richard Adams, Watership Down
You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow? — Richard Adams, Watership Down