Top 120 Richard Adams Quotes (2024 Update)
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Richard Adams Quote: “We take daylight for granted. But moonlight is another matter.”

101. “We take daylight for granted. But moonlight is another matter.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “All was confusion, ignorance, clambering and exhaustion.”

102. “All was confusion, ignorance, clambering and exhaustion.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “Well, there’s another place – another country, isn’t there? We go there when we sleep; at other times, too; and when we die.”

103. “Well, there’s another place – another country, isn’t there? We go there when we sleep; at other times, too; and when we die.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “Rabbits above ground, unless they are in proved, familiar surroundings close to their holes, live in continual fear. If it grows intense enough they can become glazed and paralysed by it – tharn, to use their own word. – Richard Adams, Watership Down.”

104. “Rabbits above ground, unless they are in proved, familiar surroundings close to their holes, live in continual fear. If it grows intense enough they can become glazed and paralysed by it – tharn, to use their own word. – Richard Adams, Watership Down.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “You would be stealing the clouds out of the sky before the moon had changed twice.”

105. “You would be stealing the clouds out of the sky before the moon had changed twice.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “There is a rabbit saying, “In the warren, more stories than passages”; and a rabbit can no more refuse to tell a story than an Irishman can refuse to fight.”

106. “There is a rabbit saying, “In the warren, more stories than passages”; and a rabbit can no more refuse to tell a story than an Irishman can refuse to fight.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “There is nothing like bad weather to reveal the shortcomings of a dwelling, particularly if it is too small. You are, as they say, stuck with it and have leisure to feel all its peculiar irritations and discomforts.”

107. “There is nothing like bad weather to reveal the shortcomings of a dwelling, particularly if it is too small. You are, as they say, stuck with it and have leisure to feel all its peculiar irritations and discomforts.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “Oh, Frith in a barn! What a business!”

108. “Oh, Frith in a barn! What a business!”

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Richard Adams Quote: “Are you trying to frighten me, you miserable little lump of chattering chickweed?”

109. “Are you trying to frighten me, you miserable little lump of chattering chickweed?”

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Richard Adams Quote: “I am the Fairy Wogdog, messenger of the great dog spirit of the East, Queen Dripslobber. Far, far in the East her palace lies! Ah, Rowsby Woof, if only you could see her mighty state, the wonders of her kingdom! The carrion that lies far and wide upon the sands! The manure, Rowsby Woof! The open sewers! Oh how you would jump for joy and run nosing all about!”

110. “I am the Fairy Wogdog, messenger of the great dog spirit of the East, Queen Dripslobber. Far, far in the East her palace lies! Ah, Rowsby Woof, if only you could see her mighty state, the wonders of her kingdom! The carrion that lies far and wide upon the sands! The manure, Rowsby Woof! The open sewers! Oh how you would jump for joy and run nosing all about!”

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Richard Adams Quote: “Well, there’s another place, another country, isn’t there? We go there when we sleep; at other times, too; and when we die. El-ahrairah comes and goes between the two as he wants, I suppose, but I could never quite make that out, from the tales. Some rabbits will tell you it’s all easy there, compared with the waking dangers that they understand. But I think that only shows they don’t know much about it. It’s a wild place, and very unsafe. And where are we really- there or here?”

111. “Well, there’s another place, another country, isn’t there? We go there when we sleep; at other times, too; and when we die. El-ahrairah comes and goes between the two as he wants, I suppose, but I could never quite make that out, from the tales. Some rabbits will tell you it’s all easy there, compared with the waking dangers that they understand. But I think that only shows they don’t know much about it. It’s a wild place, and very unsafe. And where are we really- there or here?”

— Richard Adams

Richard Adams Quote: “You wretched black beetle!”

112. “You wretched black beetle!”

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Richard Adams Quote: “That warren’s tharn as an owl in daylight.”

113. “That warren’s tharn as an owl in daylight.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “Those are rabbits down there, trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts. How can that be right?”

114. “Those are rabbits down there, trotting along like a lot of squirrels with nuts. How can that be right?”

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Richard Adams Quote: “And now, you bunch of mole-snouted, muck-raking, hutch-hearted sheep ticks, get out of my sight sharp.”

115. “And now, you bunch of mole-snouted, muck-raking, hutch-hearted sheep ticks, get out of my sight sharp.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “It’s a bad world for animals.”

116. “It’s a bad world for animals.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “I feel as dry and empty as an autumn puffball – I feel as though the wind could blow my fur away.”

117. “I feel as dry and empty as an autumn puffball – I feel as though the wind could blow my fur away.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “My goodness, we’ve learned a few things since we left the old warren, haven’t we? More than we’ve learned in a lifetime back there. And digging! It’ll be flying next.”

118. “My goodness, we’ve learned a few things since we left the old warren, haven’t we? More than we’ve learned in a lifetime back there. And digging! It’ll be flying next.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “How was one to foresee and guard against everything?”

119. “How was one to foresee and guard against everything?”

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Richard Adams Quote: “The white petals spun down around them, covering the grass and speckling their fur, while thirty feet above a thrush sang, “Cherry dew, cherry dew. Knee deep, knee deep, knee deep.”

120. “The white petals spun down around them, covering the grass and speckling their fur, while thirty feet above a thrush sang, “Cherry dew, cherry dew. Knee deep, knee deep, knee deep.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “I’m the one who ought to get angry,” said Fiver. “But I’m no good at it, that’s the trouble.”

121. “I’m the one who ought to get angry,” said Fiver. “But I’m no good at it, that’s the trouble.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “Sometimes I can tell these things, too: but not often now for my hearts is in the frost.”

122. “Sometimes I can tell these things, too: but not often now for my hearts is in the frost.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter.”

123. “For birds and animals, as for poor men, winter is another matter.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “El-arairah is a trickster,” said Buckthorn. “And rabbits will always need tricks.”

124. “El-arairah is a trickster,” said Buckthorn. “And rabbits will always need tricks.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “But all this time, just as a drop of water slowly swells until it is heavy enough to fall from a twig, the idea of what they meant to do was becoming clear and unanimous.”

125. “But all this time, just as a drop of water slowly swells until it is heavy enough to fall from a twig, the idea of what they meant to do was becoming clear and unanimous.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “It’s time people started thinking of Man as one of a number of species inhabiting the planet; and if he’s the cleverest, that merely gives him more responsibility for seeing that the rest can lead proper, natural lives under minimum control.”

126. “It’s time people started thinking of Man as one of a number of species inhabiting the planet; and if he’s the cleverest, that merely gives him more responsibility for seeing that the rest can lead proper, natural lives under minimum control.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “My courage – my spirit: it’s so much less than it was. I’m afraid to let you rely on me.”

127. “My courage – my spirit: it’s so much less than it was. I’m afraid to let you rely on me.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “I tell you, every single thing that’s happened fits like a bee in a foxglove.”

128. “I tell you, every single thing that’s happened fits like a bee in a foxglove.”

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Richard Adams Quote: “The fact that there was a warren two or three days’ journey to the south flickered and oscillated down among them as a penny wavers down through deep water, moving one way and the other, shifting, vanishing, reappearing, but always sinking towards the firm bottom.”

129. “The fact that there was a warren two or three days’ journey to the south flickered and oscillated down among them as a penny wavers down through deep water, moving one way and the other, shifting, vanishing, reappearing, but always sinking towards the firm bottom.”

— Richard Adams

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