Beatrix Potter Quotes

11 quotes from 10 authors

Beatrix Potter’s gentle world still whispers lessons about nature and imagination. This page gathers 11 thoughtful quotes from 10 different voices, ranging from childhood wonder to reflections on creativity. Readers will sense the timeless charm that makes her stories endure.

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“But not even Hitler can damage the fells' In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170.”

Beatrix Potter

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We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

Nikki Giovanni

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I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix…

Jane Gardam

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“I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and…

Dick King-Smith

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“Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. - Margaret Wise Brown Home is the nicest word…

Sarah Jio

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Meanwhile, as we read, two little girls slept as if couched on zephyrs on the south side of the parlor floor, in…

Mary Cantwell

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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is…

Beatrix Potter

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I remember him reading 'Sleeping Beauty,' and he would play the score by Tchaikovsky as he read it. We'd also read 'Winnie…

Jennifer Grant

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“Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand…

Christopher Hitchens

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“The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set…

Roald Dahl

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“Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the…

Anna Funder

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