Alan Alexander Milne Quotes

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.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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.

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

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.

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

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

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

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

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.

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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so… I feel such a deep connection to it.

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.

When a garment is in sync with your body and its proportions, it looks and feels amazing, and in France that is something that all women know from a young age.

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