Watership Down Quotes

Watership Down is a novel by Richard Adams. The work is an allegory: a fantasy about a group of rabbits in search of a warren. Here are a few quotes from Watership Down.

• "The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself."
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• "El-ahrairah, your people cannot rule the world, for I will not have it so. All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
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• "Rabbits need dignity and above all the will to accept their fate."
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• "They'd altered what rabbits do naturally because they thought they could do better."
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• "I think we ought to do all we can to make these creatures friendly. It might turn out to be well worth the trouble."
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• "The truth is, you're just a silly show-off."
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• "We all have to meet our match sometime or other."
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• "I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself."
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• "If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else."
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• "If my authority goes, where will yours be in half a day."
  - Richard Adams, Watership Down