Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

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.

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

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

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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

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

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

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

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

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

No sensible author wants anything but praise.

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