Top 38 Beatrix Potter Quotes
#1. If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
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#2. I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.
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#3. Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail ...
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#4. 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.'
But Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail had bread and milk and blackberries for supper.
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#5. For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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#6. Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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#7. WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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#11. I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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#12. We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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#13. One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.
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#14. 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.
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#15. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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#16. I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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#17. I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.
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#18. I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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#19. Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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#21. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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#24. Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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#26. But not even Hitler can damage the fells'
In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170.
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#27. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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#32. Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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#33. I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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#34. There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
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#35. 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.
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#36. It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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#37. 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 - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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#38. I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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