Beatrix Potter Quotes
I can not write if I am out of humour.
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
Let us collect our property - and other people's - and depart at once.
There are seasons when things go wrong; and they just have to be lived through.
WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
There's nothing like open air for soothing present anxiety and memories of past sadness.
One place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.
We find some people make theories out of dried specimens without the least experience of the way things grow.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets.
In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and throstles [thrush], and the flowers they call ceninen [daffodils]. And leeks and cabbages also grew in that garden; and between long straight alleys, and apple-trained espaliers, there were beds of strawberries, and mint, and sage.
Mr. McGregor hung up the little jacket and the shoes for a scare-crow to frighten the blackbirds.
Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home to the big fir-tree.
He was so tired that he flopped down upon the nice soft sand on the floor of the rabbit-hole and shut his eyes. His mother was busy cooking; she wondered what he had done with his clothes. It was the second little jacket and pair of shoes that Peter had lost in a fortnight!
