--- title: "4 Iona Opie Quotes - Famous Folklorist" description: "English scholar of folklore and children's culture... | Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, and Peter Mason Opie were an English married team of folklorists who..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/iona-opie-73470_mother-goose_mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this_1206328.jpg" --- # Iona Opie (1923–2017) Folklorist **4** quotes in **9** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Iona Opie was a folklorist. ## Quick Facts About Iona Opie Born October 13, 1923 Died October 23, 2017 Profession Folklorist ## About Iona Opie English scholar of folklore and children's culture... \| Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, and Peter Mason Opie were an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play, in studies such as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). They were ## Quotes by Iona Opie > [“Mother Goose will show newcomers to this world how astonishing, beautiful, capricious, dancy, eccentric, funny, goluptious, haphazard, intertwingled, joyous, kindly, loving, melodious,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this-world-how-astonishing/) [Iona Opie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iona-opie/) [Goose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/goose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/iona-opie-73470_mother-goose_mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this_1206328.jpg) > [“The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/the-literature-of-childhood-abounds-with-evidence-that-the-peaks-of-a/) [Iona Opie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iona-opie/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42a/iona-opie-73470_books_the-literature-of-childhood-abounds-with_1988639.jpg) > [“If you can't go to Hollywood You don't have to cry; Clark Gable is good looking But so am I.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/if-you-can-t-go-to-hollywood-you-don-t-have-to-cry-clark-gable-is/) [Iona Opie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iona-opie/) [Clark gable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clark-gable/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cbc/iona-opie-73470_clark-gable_if-you-can-t-go-to-hollywood-you-don-t-h_2187668.jpg) > [“Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you, If they catch you they'll give you a month or two, They'll tie you up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/daisy-daisy-the-coppers-are-after-you-if-they-catch-you-they-ll-give/) [Iona Opie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iona-opie/) [Pedal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pedal/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9b/iona-opie-73470_pedal_daisy-daisy-the-coppers-are-after-you-if_2381830.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iona-opie/#itemlist", "name": "Iona Opie Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Mother Goose will show newcomers to this world how astonishing, beautiful, capricious, dancy, eccentric, funny, goluptious, haphazard, intertwingled, joyous, kindly, loving, melodious, naughty, outrageous, pomsidillious, querimonious, romantic, silly, tremendous, unexpected, vertiginous, wonderful, x-citing, yo-heave-ho-ish, and zany it is.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Iona Opie" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this-world-how-astonishing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/iona-opie-73470_mother-goose_mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this_1206328.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/iona-opie-73470_mother-goose_mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this_1206328.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90f/iona-opie-73470_mother-goose_mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this_1206328.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Mother Goose will show newcomers to this world how astonishing, beautiful, capricious, dancy, eccentric…” — Iona Opie", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and silent. 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