A.A. Milne citations

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

“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).”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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?"”

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

“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.”

“"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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“"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.”

“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.”