Kehaar Quotes in Watership Down (1978)

[Kehaar makes a clumsy crash landing in a patch of grass... then looks around to make sure no one saw him]

Kehaar: Perfect landing.

Kehaar: You stupid bunnies! You got no mates! Vere are mates?

[He sticks his head down the run]

Kehaar: VERE ARE *CHICKS*?

Kehaar: [to Hazel] Go vay! Ving no good, but I walk plenty good!

[He tries to walk, but collapses]

Kehaar: Ees long way?

Kehaar: [after landing awkwardly into a patch of grass] Perfect landing!

Bigwig: [meeting secretly with Kehaar to discuss the escape plan] Listen carfeully.

Kehaar: [none too quietly] YAH!

Bigwig: [not knowing Woundwort has heard Kehaar] Shhhh!

Hazel: Are you hurt?

Kehaar: Kaah kaah!

Hazel: If he's hurt, maybe we ought to help him.

Bigwig: A bird? What for?

Hazel: We - help - you.

Kehaar: Piss off!

Kehaar: [sitting in the mouth of a run while Bigwig is trying to get out past him from behind] Vat home? Dis home? Where are mates? Where are chicks? Mate make eggs. Me sit on eggs, hatch eggs, many eggs. Ve feed chick. Egg robbers come, we fight! YARK, YARK!

[Bigwig pushes through underneath Kehaar]