Just So Stories Quotes

″...it’s not so much what you do, as what you mean.”

″‘What is this?’ said the Leopard, ‘that is so ‘sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light.‘”

“How wise are little children who see and are silent!”

“How wise are little children who speak truth!”

“The camel’s hump is an ugly lump, Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.”

“The Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton - the big fat blade bone - and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the first Singing Magic in the world.”

“But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.”

“Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn’t even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways.”

″...and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.”

“I keep six honest serving-men; (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who.”