Quotes by A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books

Lived from: 1882 - 1956

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 18 january 1882 Died: 31 january 1956

  • If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
  • So they went off together. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing.

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  • Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
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  • I suppose that everyone 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.
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  • Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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  • Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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  • Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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  • Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
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  • Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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  • Good morning, Pooh Bear, said Eeyore gloomily. If it is a good morning, he said. Which I doubt, said he.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
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  • Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Cristopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Ch. 1, opening lines
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  • I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.
    War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)
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  • I'm giving this to Eeyore, he explained, as a present. What are you going to give?
    Couldn't I give it too? said Piglet. From both of us?
    No, said Pooh. That would not be a good plan.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Chapter Six
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  • If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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  • 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.
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  • If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away: 'That's where I wanted to go today!
    When We Were Very Young Spring Morning l. 17 (1924)
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  • James James
    Morrison Morrison
    Weatherby George Dupree
    Took great
    Care of his Mother,
    Though he was only three.
    James James Said to his Mother,
    'Mother,' he said, said he;
    'You must never go down
    to the end of the town,
    if you don't go down with me.'
    Disobedience
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  • Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
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  • No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
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  • One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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  • 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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  • Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
    The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Ch. 3
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What are the most famous quotes from A. A. Milne?

The two most famous quotes from A. A. Milne are:

  • "Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
  • "I suppose that everyone 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."

When did A. A. Milne live?

A. A. Milne was born in 1882 and died in the year 1956.