Violet
[Running from a badger]
It had just killed. I saw blood on it's lips.
Dandelion Lucky for us it had, otherwise it might have been quicker!
Played by Richard O'Callaghan 
Watership Down (1978) · 58 quotes
Watership Down (1978) · 58 quotes
Tied for 6th most-quoted character in Watership Down (1978): in 7 of its 58 quotes
Most scenes with: Hazel (5), Bigwig (4), Blackberry (4)
Scenes with Dandelion
7 scenes Dandelion 
[while all are digging in the rain]
What's happening back home, I wonder? Think, when we lived in our own burrows? Dry, soft, warm bodies...
Dandelion [to Hazel]
Look, we can't go on like this.
It keeps getting worse and worse wherever we go. Where ARE we going?
It won't be much longer, then we can all rest.
How MUCH longer?
We never should have left.
Suppose Fiver's all wrong?
We want to go back and find out.
Go back? After all we've been through?
And probably get killed for wounding Captain Holly? An Owsla officer? Talk sense, for Frith's sake!
[they believe Bigwig to be dead]
You pay for it! The food, the warren! But no one must ever ask where anyone was or speak of the wires! The whole placed is snared! Everywhere, every day!
They left Bigwig to die!
Dandelion Silver's right!
Let's drive them out, take their warren and live there ourselves!
Dandelion Yes!
Back to the warren!
Yes! Yes! Yes, back to the warren!
Embleer Frith, you fools! That warren's nothing but a death hole! Yes, let's help ourselves to a roof of bones!
Dandelion [looking at the countryside from Watership Down]
O Frith on the hills! He made it all for us!
Frith may have made it, but Fiver found it.
Did you find anything on your flight?
Efrafa.
Can you guide us there?
Many rabbits. Too many rabbits.
Holly
A lot of us wouldn't be enough to fight one of their wide patrols.
What do you mean?
Holly
[shows Bigwig the scar on his shoulder]
You see this? They did it to me. It's an identification mark. Tells you when you can be above ground.
What do you mean? Who's to stop you?
Holly
Their Owsla. Their chief is called Woundwort. General Woundwort. I don't think even you'd match up to him, Bigwig. Under him are his captains, each one in charge of a Mark. If you're found above ground at the wrong time, they take you before the Council for punishment.
Some of them must get away.
Holly
They caught one trying to run away when I was there. Blackavar was his name. When they'd finished with him, both his ears were ripped to shreds...worse than this one of mine. He was lucky not to have been killed. There was another one, a doe, Hyzenthlay. I couldn't have escaped without her help.
Why didn't she go with you?
Holly
She wouldn't go without the others.
Then there are some that might be persuaded to leave?
Holly
Oh, yes. But you'd never get them out of Efrafa.
Dandelion Well, you got out.
Holly
Only because Lord Frith sent one of his great messengers. [a flashback shows Holly running away from two Efrafans, the Efrafans are run over by a train and Holly rolls down a steep slope] I didn't see what happened to them. It must have cut them down.
Well, it's not going to be easy, but I'm afraid we don't have much choice. We'll start off as soon as I'm fit to travel.
Holly
I don't like this idea of yours at all, Hazel.
Holly, I want you to stay here. You're known to them and it could be dangerous for you.
Holly
I've been in Efrafa, and I tell you you're making a bad mistake that might very well get you all killed.
[As Hazel and Fiver prepare to leave Sandleford in the night, Blackberry joins them.]
Who's that?
It's me.
Dandelion?
No. Blackberry. Dandelion told me you were leaving the warren tonight. [several other rabbits join them] If it's true, I'd like to come along.
Violet
We'd like to come along too.
Dandelion I don't much like the look of things.
We must get everyone.
That Toadflax fellow followed me down the run. It could mean the Owsla has been turned out tonight.
Then the sooner we're off, the better.
They need to rest, Hazel.
Something up ahead. [sniffs and sees a bean field nearby]
Dandelion A warm, friendly burrow, perhaps?
No, no, no, not a burrow. A field. A great field of scented plants that will cover us sight and sound until we're rested.
You're beginning to sound like a chief, Hazel. Hazel-rah!
Hazel-rah? That'll be the day I call him chief, that will.
