A.A. Milne Quotes page 3

“Wherever I am, there's always Pooh,
There's always Pooh and Me.
Whatever I do, he wants to do,
"Where are you going today?" says Pooh:
"Well, that's very odd 'cos I was too.
Let's go together," says Pooh, says he.
"Let's go together," says Pooh.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne book Now We Are Six

Source: Now We Are Six

“The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet”

“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.”

Variant: The things that make me different are the things that make me.

“When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.”

“And I’d say to myself as I looked so lazily down at the sea:
“There’s nobody else in the world, and the world was made for me.”

Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”

Source: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

“Christopher Robin… just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.”

“Walking with her man,
Lost in a dream”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne book Now We Are Six

Source: Now We Are Six

“They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.”

“James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

“Oh, Bear!” said Christopher Robin. “How I do love you!” “So do I,” said Pooh.”

“How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.”

Source: Winnie the Pooh

“He could see the honey, he could smell the honey, but he couldn’t quite reach the honey.”

Variant: How sweet to be a cloud
Floating in the blue.
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“The Dormouse looked out, and he said with a sigh:
"I suppose all these people know better than I.
It was silly, perhaps, but I did like the view
Of geraniums (red) and delphiniums (blue).”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“It looks like a bothering sort of day.”

“And how are you?", said Winnie-the-Pooh. (…)
"Not very how", he said. "I don't seem to have felt at all how for a long time.”

“But the most important thing is, even if we're apart, I'll always be with you.”

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
Source: Winnie the Pooh

“When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him.”

“And now all the others are saying, "What about Us?" So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.”

Variant: For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
Source: Pooh's Little Instruction Book

“It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, "Now then, Pooh, time for a little something."”

Source: The World of Winnie-the-Pooh

“They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace —
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
They've great big parties inside the grounds.
"I wouldn't be king for a hundred pounds",
Says Alice.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Six.

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When We Were Very Young (1924)

“I shouldn't be surprised if it hailed a good deal tomorrow", Eeyore was saying. "Blizzards and what-not. Being fine today doesn't mean anything. It has no sig - what's that word? Well, it has none of that. It's just a small piece of weather.”

“Isn't it funny
How a bear likes honey?
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
I wonder why he does?”

The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

“You only blinched inside," said Pooh, "and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.”

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“Owl took Christopher Robin's notice from Rabbit and looked at it nervously. He could spell his own name WOL, and he could spell Tuesday so that you knew it wasn't Wednesday, and he could read quite comfortably when you weren't looking over his shoulder and saying "Well?"”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Ten.

“Owl was telling Kanga an Interesting Anecdote full of long words like Encyclopædia and Rhododendron to which Kanga wasn't listening.”

all the time, and he could—
Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Five.

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Eight.

“"Shall I look too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter One, opening lines.

“Nearly eleven o'clock," said Pooh happily. "You're just in time for a little smackerel of something.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Two.

“If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter One.

“The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.”

The House at Pooh Corner (1928)

“"H– hup!" said Roo accidentally.
"Roo, dear!" said Kanga reproachfully.
"Was it me?" asked Roo, a little surprised.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter One - Pooh.

“Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Ten.

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.”

Peace with Honour, 1934.

“Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.”

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“Piglet looked up, and looked away again. And he felt so Foolish and Uncomfortable that he had almost decided to run away to Sea and be a Sailor, when suddenly he saw something.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

“Yes," said Tigger, "they're very good flyers, Tiggers are. Strornry good flyers.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Three.

“Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Four.

“Kanga said to Roo, "Drink up your milk first, dear, and talk afterwards." So Roo, who was drinking his milk, tried to say that he could do both at once… and had to be patted on the back and dried for quite a long time afterwards.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Three.

“"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Ten.

“Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Ten.

“Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply,
Cottleston, cottleston, cottleston pie.”

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Seven.

“James James
Morrison Morrison
Weatherby George Dupree
Took great care of his mother
Though he was only three.
James James said to his mother
Mother he said, said he:
You mustn't go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
James James Morrison's Mother
Put on a golden gown.
James James Morrison's Mother
Went to the end of the town
James James Morrison's Mother
Said to herself, said she:
I can go right down to the end of the town and be back in time for tea!”

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

A.A. Milne book When We Were Very Young

Source: When We Were Very Young (1924)

“"If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee."
Then he thought another long time, and said: "And the only reason for being a bee that I know of is making honey."
And then he got up, and said: "And the only reason for making honey is so I can eat it." So he began to climb the tree.”

“"Good morning, Pooh Bear", said Eeyore gloomily. "If it is a good morning", he said. "Which I doubt", said he.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter One - Pooh.

“Pooh always liked a little something at eleven o'clock in the morning, and he was very glad to see Rabbit getting out the plates and mugs; and when Rabbit said, "Honey or condensed milk with your bread?" he was so excited that he said, "Both," and then, so as not to seem greedy, he added, "But don't bother about the bread, please."”

Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)

“I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name,
And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same.
I put him in a matchbox, and I kept him all the day…And Nanny let my beetle out
Yes, Nanny let my beetle out
She went and let my beetle out-
And beetle ran away.She said she didn't mean it, and I never said she did,
She said she wanted matches, and she just took off the lid
She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to catch
An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match.She said that she was sorry, and I really mustn't mind
As there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain we could find
If we looked about the garden for the holes where beetles hid-
And we'd get another matchbox, and write BEETLE on the lid.We went to all the places which a beetle might be near,
And we made the sort of noises which a beetle likes to hear,
And I saw a kind of something, and I gave a sort of shout:
"A beetle-house and Alexander Beetle coming out!"It was Alexander Beetle I'm as certain as can be
And he had a sort of look as if he thought it might be ME,
And he had a kind of look as if he thought he ought to say:
"I'm very, very sorry that I tried to run away."And Nanny's very sorry too, for you know what she did,
And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the lid,
So Nan and me are friends, because it's difficult to catch
An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Two.

A.A. Milne book Now We Are Six

Forgiven (affectionately also known as Alexander Beetle).
Now We Are Six (1927)

“It's a little Anxious," he said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.”

“Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.”

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), Chapter Nine - Piglet.