Watership Down is a survival and adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in southern England, around Hampshire, the story features a small group of rabbits. Profoundly inspirational Watership Down quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Famous Watership Down Quotes
Kehaar: Ees long way?
Rabbits will always needtricks!
Gen. Woundwort: I’ll blind him. I’ll blind him!
Kehaar: Perfect landing.
Fiver: Violet’s gone.
Capt. Holly: It’s you who’ll be killed!
Hazel: Go… now… or we’ll kill you!Capt. Holly: It’s you who’ll be killed!
Hyzenthlay: Sir?
Hyzenthlay: Sometimes I can tell when things are true. Sometimes… I can see it… The high down with trees, and… I’ve become foolish.Bigwig: You’ll have to meet this friend of mine. He talks just like that.
Hazel: Lord Frith, I know you’ve looked after us well and it’s wrong to ask even more of you, but my people are in terrible danger! So I would like to make a bargain with you… my life in return for theirs.Frith: There is not a day or night that a doe offers her life for her kittens or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief…
Cat: Can you run?I think not…..I think not. Cat: Can you run? I think not… I think not.
Bigwig: I told you once that I was trying to impress you… I hope I have.Gen. Woundwort: And I told you I would kill you myself! There’s no white bird here, Bigwig.
Bigwig: There’s a dog loose in the woods! Silver: Oh,that does it! Silver: Oh, that does it!
Campion: Run! Run for your lives! Run!
Hazel: We help you. Kehaar: Piss off!
Gen. Woundwort: I’ll settle with you myself Bigwig, no use to take you back. Bigwig: Come on and try ya’ crack brain slave driver!
Fiver: So cold……so very cold…. Fiver: So cold… so very cold.
Blackberry: Men have always hated us.Capt. Holly: No. They just destroyed the warren because we were in their way.Fiver: They’ll never rest until they’ve spoiled the earth.
Gen. Woundwort: Come back! Come back and fight! Dogs aren’t dangerous!
Campion: The whole world will be your enemy. Prince with a thousand enemies, and when they catch you they will kill you..but first…they must catch you Campion: All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when 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 will never be destroyed. Campion: All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when 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 will never be destroyed.
Hazel: Is it dangerous?
Dandelion: If we meet again, Hazel-rah, we’ll have the making of the best story ever!Hazel: And you’ll be the one to tell it!
Hazel: Rabbits will always need tricks!
Gen. Woundwort: YOUR CHIEF?