Quotes by Richard Adams

Richard Adams

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

Being True

Desperate

Folly

All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when 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 will never be destroyed.

Enemy

People

Warning

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit’s idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

Opportunity

Sunset

Tyrants

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

Cunning

People

Tricks

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, ‘That wasn’t why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

Garden

Men

Way

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn’t they?

Dangerous

Might

Names

How do they find out with the experiments?”…one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.”But isn’t that unkind to the animal?”Well, I suppose it is…but I mean, there isn’t a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It’s changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that’s no exaggeration.

Children

Dad

Mean

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

Majority

Thinking

Years

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

Flower

Sky

Two

I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

Rabbits

Suffering

Thinking

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Accepted

Advice

Animal

Being True

Bird

Bless

Book

Cat

Certain

Children

Clouds

Council

Cunning

Cutting

Dad

Dangerous

Desperate

Doe

Dog

Earth

Enemy

Fall

Fate

Fear

Feeling Lonely

Flower

Folly

Garden

Heart

Holes

Jealous

Knows

Lonely

Loss

Majority

Mean

Memories

Men

Might

Names

Needs

Not Afraid

Opportunity

Our Children

Pain

Past

People

Rabbits

Records

Simple

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Quotes by Richard Adams

Richard Adams

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.

All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when 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 will never be destroyed.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, ‘That wasn’t why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.

Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn’t they?

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

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