Famous Quotes of A. A. Milne

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is 'Treasure Island?' These are masterpieces which we read with pleasure as children, but with how much more pleasure when we are grown-up.

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

Tiggers don't like honey.