Paddington Quotes

I'm not a criminal," said Paddington, hotly. "I'm a bear! ~ Michael Bond

Pünd remembered their first case together when Fraser had failed to notice that his travelling companion, on the three-fifty train from Paddington, was actually dead. ~ Anthony Horowitz

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. And until tonight I had always felt that there was a lot in it. I had never scorned a woman myself, but Pongo Twistleton once scorned an aunt of his, flatly refusing to meet her son Gerald at Paddington and give him lunch and see him off to school at Waterloo, and he never heard the end of it. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. ~ Peter Porter

He next made arrangements to patent his bridge, and to construct at Rotherham the large model of it exhibited on Paddington Green, London. ~ Thomas Paine

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. ~ Stephen Fry

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him. ~ Michael Bond

Nell was like a witch. Her long silvery hair rolled into a bun on the back of her head, the narrow wooden house on the hillside in Paddington, with its peeling lemon-yellow paint and overgrown garden, the neighborhood cats that followed her everywhere. The way she had of fixing her eyes so straight on you, as if she might be about to cast a spell. ~ Kate Morton