Quotes from A. A. Milne

There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

The things that make me different are the things that make me ME. -Piglet

The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.

When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

Hallo, Eeyore." "Same to you, Pooh Bear, and twice on Thursdays," said Eeyore gloomily. Before Pooh could say: 'Why Thursdays?' Christopher Robin began to explain the sad story of Eeyore's lost house.

We didn't know we were making memories, we were just having fun

The more - the merrier.

Gone out. Backson. Busy backson.

Je hoeft je heus niet te verontschuldigen voor Vrolijkheid en Blijheid enzo. Die dingen komen nu eenmaal voor. Sombere raad van Iejoor

Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.

You know, when once you've discovered a secret yourself, it always seems as if it must be so obvious to everybody else.

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

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it." - Eeyore

There is nothing that you and I could not accomplish together, if we gave our minds to it.

The dedication: To John Vine Milne: My Dear Father, Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So after all that you have done for me, the least I can do for you is to write one. Here it is: with more gratitude and affection than I can well put down here.

No one can write a book which children will like, unless he write it for himself first. – A. A. Milne

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I do remember,' explained Christopher Robin, 'only Pooh doesn't very well, so that's why he likes having it told to him again. Because then it's a real story and not just a remembering.

There was indeed a " frightful lot" of books. The four walls of the library were plastered with them from floor to ceiling, save only where the door and the two windows insisted on living their own life, even though an illiterate one.

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it. Let us stop him at the top of the hill on some excuse, and have a good look at him.