Ursula Moray Williams Quotes

“This was such a brave little horse, so gay and splendid on his four green wheels, so proud and dashing with his red saddle and blue stripes!”

“Oh, master, I don’t want to leave you! I’m a quiet little horse, I don’t want to be sold. I want to stay with you for ever and ever.”

“But the cheap toys were very pretty, and the children did not want Uncle Peder’s anymore.”

“What do you think she wants with a scratched, broken, cheap toy like you? Do you expect to come and live in her playhouse with us? Look round you and think again!”

″‘She has a real pony out of doors,’ said the spotted rocking horse. ‘What can you imagine she would want with you?‘”

“The little wooden horse knew that he was not so handsome now as in those days. The paint had worn off his red saddle; his blue stripes were scratched and bare; his four green wheels had travelled so far they were nearly worn out; but he hoped that the little girl would not notice these things.”

“It’s a funny world! Here I am, a quiet little horse who only wants to serve his master and stay by his side, flung into the forest, tossed into a ditch, hurled over the roof! Who knows what will happen to me next?”

“The barn was empty! Uncle Peder had disappeared!”

″‘Oh you poor little wooden horse!’ she said. ‘I could never, never take you away from your master!‘”

“There he was, under the rocking horse’s nose, feeling as small and foolish as could be.”