Richard Adams quotes

„You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„My Chief Rabbit has told me to stay and defend this run, and until he says otherwise, I shall stay here. --Bigwig“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„We all have to meet our match sometime or other.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„Rabbit underground, rabbit safe and sound.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Watership Down

„Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„I am sorry for you with all my heart. But you cannot blame us, for you came to kill us if you could.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.“

—  Richard Adams

„Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

„For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.“

—  Richard Adams, book Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

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

—  Richard Adams, book The Plague Dogs

Source: The Plague Dogs (1977)