Polly (Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf) Quotes

“Why can’t I ever get you, Polly, when that other wolf managed to get his little girl.”

“Go away, Wolf, and have a better idea, if you can.”

“This book has twelve stories about Polly and how she always managed to escape from the wolf by being cleverer than he was- which wasn’t very difficult because he was generally not at all clever. In fact he was rather stupid.”

″‘But I haven’t got a cow,’ he cried. ‘If you had you wouldn’t need to eat me,’ Polly pointed out. ‘You could eat the cow.‘”

″‘But in my book he doesn’t get Red Riding Hood,’ said Polly. ‘Her father comes just in time to save her.’ ‘Oh, he doesn’t in my book!’ said the wolf. ‘I expect mine is the true story, and yours is just invented.‘”