“The toad beneath the harrow knows
Exactly where each tooth point goes;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.”

“I'm such a clever Toad.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

“He was indeed an altered Toad!”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

“Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.”

Stephen Crane (1871–1900) American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

“Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater.”

Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician

“Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.”

Chinua Achebe book Things Fall Apart

“The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As intelligent Mr. Toad!”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

“Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“The toad, without which no garden would be complete.”

Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) American writer