Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

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.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

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

Tiggers don't like honey.

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.

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

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

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.

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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I didn't know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored… I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

Where in the world have you seen construction people who do everything on time, with good quality and at minimal prices? Just give me one country like that. A country like that doesn't exist in the world, you know. There's not one such country anywhere in the world.

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