Beatrix Potter Quotes

This is a fierce bad rabbit;

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

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.

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters an...

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

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 wi...

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Dressed like a policeman! BUT the nurse said: I will set a mouse-trap! SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But they were not so very, very naughty after all, because Tom Thumb paid for everythin...

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 com...

He was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air and

Κάθε άνθρωπος βολεύεται στον τόπο που του ταιριάζει. One place suits one person, another place suits another person.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents

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 a...

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening.His mother put him to bed, and made some camomile tea; and she gave a dose of it to Peter!'One table-spoonful to be taken at bed-time....

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 re...

That the doll's house belonged to said: I will get a doll dressed like a policeman! BUT the nurse said: I will set a mouse-trap! SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But they were not so very, ve...