All Beatrix Potter Quotes
- There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you. Delicious
- I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. Descendants
- Thank goodness my education was neglected. Education
- I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding Fear
- 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… Bad
- In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta… Coats
- 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… Along
- 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… Balanced
- Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he… Another Story
- 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… Bed
- Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work. Afraid
- Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes. Among
- It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My… Alive