"Is anybody at home?" There was a sudden scuffling noise from inside the hole, and then silence. "What I said was, `Is anybody at home?'" called out Pooh very loudly. "No!" said a voice; and then added, "You needn't shout so loud. I heard you quite well the first time." "Bother!" said Pooh. "Isn't there anybody here at all?" "Nobody." -- Pooh looks for Rabbit Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 20 _Where should they dig the Very Deep Pit?_ Piglet said that the best place would be somewhere where a Heffalump was, just before he fell into it, only about a foot further on. -- Obviously a deep thinker Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 54 "Christopher Robin has gone out somewhere with Backson. He and Backson are busy together. Have you seen a Backson anywhere about in the Forest lately?" -- Owl poses the question The House at Pooh Corner, p. 78 But whatever his weight in pounds, shillings and ounces, He always seems bigger because of his bounces. "And that's the whole poem," he said. "Do you like it, Piglet?" "All except the shillings," said Piglet. "I don't think they ought to be there." "They wanted to come in after the pounds," explained Pooh, "so I let them. It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -- Pooh, poet The House at Pooh Corner, p. 29 "Oo, Tigger," he said excitedly, "are we at the top?" "No," said Tigger. "Are we going to the top?" "_No_," said Tigger. "Oh!" said Roo rather sadly. And then he went on hopefully: "That was a lovely bit just now, when you pretended we were going to fall-bump-to-the-bottom and we didn't. Will you do that bit again?" "NO," said Tigger. -- Touchy, Tigger, Touchy! The House at Pooh Corner, p. 62 "It goes in!" "So it does!" said Piglet. "And it comes out!" "Doesn't it?" said Eeyore. "It goes in and out like anything." -- Fun with balloons and pots Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 79 "Oh Eeyore!" cried Christopher Robin. "Are you hurt?" And he felt him rather anxiously, and dusted him and helped him to stand again. Eeyore said nothing for a long time. And then he said: "Is Tigger there?" Tigger was there, feeling Bouncy again already. "Yes," said Christopher Robin. "Tigger's here." "Well just thank him once for me," said Eeyore. -- Tigger falls on Eeyore The House at Pooh Corner, p. 70 "Could you fly up to the letter-box with Piglet on your back?" he asked. "No," said Piglet quickly. "He couldn't." -- Maybe not, Pooh The House at Pooh Corner, p. 138 "There's just one thing," said Piglet, fidgeting a bit. "I was talking to Christopher Robin, and he said that a Kanga was Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals. In which case `_Aha!_' is perhaps a _foolish_ thing to say." -- the fears of a Very Small Animal Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 84 this take "If is shall really to flying I never it." -- Piglet experiences flight Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 93 "Hallo, Rabbit," he said, "is that you?" "Let's pretend it isn't," said Rabbit, "and see what happens." -- Pooh meets Rabbit Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 102 "I'll give you three guesses, Rabbit. Digging holes in the ground? Wrong. Leaping from branch to branch of a young oak-tree? Wrong. Waiting for somebody to help me out of the river? Right. Give Rabbit time, and he'll always get the answer." -- Eeyore explains why he's floating in the river The House at Pooh Corner, p. 94 Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked Piglet what it meant he said it was his grandfather's name, and had been in the family for a long time. Christopher Robin said you _couldn't_ be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said you could, because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for Trespassers William. -- A strange sort of name Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 30 BANG!!!???***!!! Piglet lay there, wondering what had happened. At first he thought that the whole world had blown up; and then he thought that perhaps only the Forest part of it had; and then he thought that perhaps only _he_ had, and he was now alone in the moon or somewhere, and would never see Christopher Robin or Pooh or Eeyore again. And then he thought, "Well, even if I'm in the moon, I needn't be face downwards all the time," so he got cautiously up and looked about him. -- Piglet bangs a balloon Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 75 "It's a funny thing about Tiggers," whispered Tigger to Roo, "how Tiggers _never_ get lost." "Why don't they, Tigger?" "They just don't," explained Tigger. "That's how it is." -- Not much of an explanation The House at Pooh Corner, p. 119 Sometimes he thought sadly to himself, "Why?" and sometimes he thought, "Wherefore?" and sometimes he thought, "In as much as which?" --- and sometimes he didn't quite know what he _was_ thinking about. -- Eeyore confuses himself Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 39 After a long munching noise he said: "Ee-ers o i a-ors." And when Pooh and Piglet said "What?" he said "Skoos ee," and went outside for a moment. When he came back he said firmly: "Tiggers don't like haycorns." "But you said they liked everything except honey," said Pooh. "Everything except honey _and_ haycorns," explained Tigger. -- Tigger tries haycorns The House at Pooh Corner, p. 24 "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best ---" and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey _was_ a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. -- Christopher Robin asks what Pooh likes doing best The House at Pooh Corner, p. 168 "Help, help!" cried Piglet, "a Heffalump, a Horrible Heffalump!" and he scampered off as hard as he could, still crying out, "Help, help, a Herrible Hoffalump! Hoff, Hoff, a Hellible Horralump! Holl, Holl, a Hoffable Hellerump!" -- Piglet panics Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 62 "Is it One of the Fiercer Animals?" he said, looking the other way. Pooh nodded. "It's a Jagular," he said. "What do Jagulars do?" asked Piglet, hoping that they wouldn't. -- Piglet's inquiring mind The House at Pooh Corner, p. 63 There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count. -- Rabbit's philosophy The House at Pooh Corner, p. 73 Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which one of them was the right, then the other one was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. -- Pooh foncuses left and right The House at Pooh Corner, p. 116 "What I like best in the world is Me and Piglet going to see You, and You saying, `What about a little something?' and Me saying, `Well, I shouldn't mind a little something, should you, Piglet,' and it being a hummy sort of day outside, and birds singing." -- Christopher Robin asks what Pooh likes doing best The House at Pooh Corner, p. 169 "If anyone wants to clap," said Eeyore when he had read this, "now is the time to do it." They all clapped. "Thank you," said Eeyore. "Unexpected and gratifying, if a little lacking in Smack." -- Eeyore reads him poem The House at Pooh Corner, p. 163 "What _is_ the North Pole?" he asked. "It's just a thing you discover," said Christopher Robin carelessly, not being quite sure himself. -- Pooh asks a difficult question Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 101 "... only grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake ..." -- Eeyore explains why the others Can't Think The House at Pooh Corner, p. 10 "Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever." "And he has Brain." "Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain." There was a long silence. "I suppose," said Pooh, "that that's why he never understands anything." -- Those who have and have not The House at Pooh Corner, p. 127 "Tiggers don't like honey." "Oh!" said Pooh, and tried to make it sound Sad and Regretful. "I thought they liked everything." "Everything except honey," said Tigger. -- The obliging guest The House at Pooh Corner, p. 22 "Well," said Owl, "the customary procedure in such cases is as follows." "What does Crustimoney Proseedcake mean?" said Pooh. "For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me." "It means the Thing to Do." -- Pooh's confession Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 45 "Shall I look, too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seem to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it. -- Pooh considers others The House at Pooh Corner, p. 32 "Tiggers never go on being Sad," explained Rabbit. "They get over it with Astonishing Rapidity." -- Stashonishing what? The House at Pooh Corner, p. 110 "Handsome bell-rope, isn't it?" said Owl. Pooh nodded. "It reminds me of something," he said, "but I can't think what. Where did you get it?" "I just came across it in the Forest. It was hanging over a bush, and I thought at first somebody lived there, so I rang it, and nothing happened, and then I rang it again very loudly, and it came off in my hand, and as nobody seemed to want it, I took it home and ---" "Owl," said Pooh solemnly, "you made a mistake. Somebody did want it." -- Pooh finds Eeyore's tail Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 47 "`_Aha!_' means `We'll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go away from the Forest and never come back.' Now don't talk while I think." Pooh went into a corner and tried to saying `Aha!' in that sort of voice. Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just practice," he thought. -- "Aha" really means all that? Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 84 Pooh dropped his stone. There was a loud splash, and Eeyore disappeared... -- Rescuing Eeyore The House at Pooh Corner, p. 97 "I don't hold with all this washing," grumbled Eeyore. "This modern Behind-the-ears nonsense." -- The rituals of modern society Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 110 PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD. PLEZ CNOK IF AN RNSR IS NOT REQID. -- Owl's sign Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 43 "Oh, Eeyore, you _are_ wet!" said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time. -- Piglet tries making conversation The House at Pooh Corner, p. 98 Never had Henry Pootel Piglet run so fast as he ran then, and he didn't stop running until he had got quite close to his house. But when he was a hundred yards away he stopped running, and rolled the rest of the way home, so as to get his own nice comfortable colour again.... -- Piglet escapes from Kanga Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 97 There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. -- Piglet on Owl Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 118 "If you go on making faces like Piglet's, you will grow up to _look_ like Piglet---and _then_ think how sorry you will be." -- Kanga tells it like it is Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 95 "Look at the birthday cake. Candles and pink sugar." Pooh looked --- first to the right and then to the left. "Presents?" said Pooh. "Birthday cake?" said Pooh. "_Where?_" "Can't you see them?" "No," said Pooh. "Neither can I," said Eeyore. "Joke," he explained. "Ha ha!" -- Eeyore's droll humour Winnie-the-Pooh, p. 68 He uses short, easy words, like `What about lunch?' and `Help yourself Pooh.' -- Pooh explains why he likes Rabbit The House at Pooh Corner, p. 55 POOH (_who wasn't going to be there, but we find we can't do without him_): "Oh Piglet, how brave and clever you are!" -- Piglet dreams a happy dream The House at Pooh Corner, p. 45 Small's real name was Very Small Beetle, but he was called Small for short, when he was spoken to at all, which hardly ever happened except when somebody said: "_Really_, Small!" -- Small, one of Rabbit's friends-and-relations The House at Pooh Corner, p. 45 I was BOUNCED," said Eeyore. -- Eeyore explains how he fell in the river The House at Pooh Corner, p. 99