Top 25 Quotes by Richard Adams of 31 - Page 2

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

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

Names, Might, Dangerous

Richard Adams (2015). “The Plague Dogs”, p.115, Oneworld Publications

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

Richard Adams

Sunset, Opportunity, Tyrants

Richard Adams (2009). “Watership Down: A Novel”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

Who knows why men do anything?

Richard Adams

Men, Why Me, Knows

Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.61, Oneworld Publications

Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.

Richard Adams

Sooner Or Later

How do they find out with the experiments?''...one way they can find out a whole lot is to make an animal ill and then try different ways to make it better until they find one that works.''But isn't that unkind to the animal?''Well, I suppose it is...but I mean, there isn't a dad anywhere who would hesitate, is there, if he knew it was going to make [his child] better? It's changed the whole world during the last hundred years, and that's no exaggeration.

Richard Adams

Children, Dad, Mean