- Clover: There's a terrible evil in the world and it comes from men. All other elil just do what they do to live on the earth to get food. But men will never rest until they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.
- Captain Holly: You lack animality.
- Captain Vervain: What did you say to me?
- Captain Holly: You have no integrity. Animals don't behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight. If they have to kill, they kill. But they don't set their wits to devise ways of hurting other creatures.
- Captain Vervain: If you speak out of turn to me again, I will have your tongue. Next time you see me, you better wish yourself invisible.
- [last lines]
- Hazel: Am I to walk with you now?
- Black Rabbit of Inlé: All walk with me, Hazel. It is but for a brief moment called life that you leave my side.
- Hazel: I'm afraid.
- Black Rabbit of Inlé: Oh, there's no more to fear in death than in the changing of the seasons. If you keep this in your heart, Hazel, you will become a truly great leader of rabbits. One worthy of joining my Owsla.
- Bluebell: I wonder how many does will be at this place! Blackberry. Blackberry?
- Blackberry: If you're coming along, you can't be making jokes at inappropriate times.
- Bluebell: What's that supposed to mean?
- Blackberry: It means you have a tendency to be a liability.
- Bluebell: How dare you call me a liability?
- Blackberry: Bluebell, you saved me. You're a hero.
- Bluebell: I think I much preferred it when I was a liability.
- Captain Holly: [Campion is not looking at a doe being marked] Don't avert your eyes, Captain. You're party to this.
- Captain Campion: I'm following orders. That's what soldiers do.
- Captain Holly: Take it from me. What makes a good soldier is not always what makes a good rabbit.