Dick King-Smith > Quotes

“Patience is a virtue,
Virtue is a grace.
Grace is a little girl
Who would not wash her face.”
― Dick King-Smith, Lady Daisy

“That'll do, Pig. That'll do. -Farmer Hogget”
― Dick King-Smith, Babe: The Gallant Pig

“I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English.”
― Dick King-Smith

“A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing.”
― Dick King-Smith, Ace: The Very Important Pig

“And how will you afford to buy them in the first place?"

"I shall save up."

"But that will take you years and years and years," said the twins.

"I've got years and years and years," said Sophie.”
― Dick King-Smith

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise if it don't make him wealthy.”
― Dick King-Smith, Ace: The Very Important Pig

“That'll do, Pig. That'll do.”
― Dick King-Smith

“When humans say that someone "is full of grit", they mean full of courage. Before long the sisters were to prove that they were filled with grit in both senses of the word.”
― Dick King-Smith, The Fox Busters

“He felt shocked. But he also felt in some way relieved, for it is better to admit some facts, even hard, bitter facts, than to go on pretending that they don't exist.”
― Dick King-Smith, Pigs Might Fly

“pursuit,”
― Dick King-Smith, The Queen's Nose

“My friends, may good fortune guide you through the day to come, whether you go to your rest or start about your business. Young or old, swift or slow, strong or weak, hunter or hunted, may you fare well until we meet once more.”
― Dick King-Smith, Godhanger

“Anger may be healthy, cleansing, a relief to the spirit at certain times, just as a violent thunderstorm clears the air and cools the overheated land.”
― Dick King-Smith, Godhanger

“He shook his head in disbelief that such a thing could have happened. "Shall we ever know the inside story?" he said.
"Uncle Eric's inside the sea-monkeys," said Bertie. "That's the story.”
― Dick King-Smith, Dodos Are Forever

“That'll do, pig, that'll do.”
― Dick King-Smith

“Drusilla”
― Dick King-Smith, Martin's Mice

“Sorry, moth,' he said. 'I'm afraid I've rather spoiled your night out. Presumably I've made some other moth a widow, or a widower—I've no idea what sex you are... were, I mean. But I didn't do you in with malice aforethought, old moth, take my word for it. I have no grudge against you, old moth, I do assure you. On the contrary, what I feel for you is love, the love of a tender morsel of moth-meat. I am a great lover of tender morsels, of vole-meat and mouse-meat, of the flesh of little birds and the innards of beetles, and of bite-sized bits of the wriggling worm. All must die to keep Eustace in good nick. And lastly I console you, my lepidopterous friend, with the thought that some day or night Eustace will drop off his perch and be loved in his turn, by the ants and the maggots.”
― Dick King-Smith, Godhanger

“There’s no point in crying over spilt milk!’ CHAPTER SEVEN”
― Dick King-Smith, The Hodgeheg