"Watership Down" Quotes

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.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Rabbits have a remarkable capacity for remembering their dead.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it’s not that simple.

I’d rather be a free rabbit and have a name that no one knows.

It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.

You can’t defend yourself and fight him at the same time.

All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you.

For what do you imagine a man would be selling his soul, if he could?

The only remedy for ignorance is to inquire; the only remedy for doubt is to enquire; and the only remedy for uncertainty is to enquire.