Toad Hall

Toad Hall may refer to:

  • The fictional residence of Mr. Toad in Kenneth Grahame's novel The Wind in the Willows or a number of supposed inspirations for this building in England:
    • Hardwick House in Oxfordshire
    • Mapledurham House in Oxfordshire
    • Fawley Court in Buckinghamshire
  • Toad Hall, Canberra, Australia

Famous quotes containing the words toad hall, toad and/or hall:

    Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior ... most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.
    Ralph Harper (b. 1915)

    Ask a toad what beauty is, the supreme beauty, the to kalon. He will tell you it is his lady toad with her two big round eyes coming out of her little head, her large flat snout, yellow belly, brown back.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    I was afraid the waking arm would break
    From the loose earth and rub against his eyes
    A fist of trees, and the whole country tremble
    In the exultant labor of his rise;
    —Donald Hall (b. 1928)