Top 74 Quotes About Beatrix
#1. But I did consider you," Peter assured me. "For quite a while. About half an hour. Beatrix wasn't too happy with me.
Julie Berry
#2. No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes." Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#3. I do not blench at nature red in tooth and claw... And much as I love The Wind in the Willows and the works of Beatrix Potter, I never dress my animals in clothes... They behave as animals should behave, with the exception that they open their mouths and speak the Queen's English.
Dick King-Smith
#4. It depends on whether the monkey is more intelligent than we are."
"I'm rather afraid of the answer," Harry replied dryly.
- Beatrix & Harry
Lisa Kleypas
#5. Are you going to argue with me?"
Beatrix tried to sound meek. "No, sir."
A slow smile crossed his face. "That was the worst attempt at obedience I've ever seen.
Lisa Kleypas
#6. Christopher entered the room, having to bend his head to pass through the small medieval doorway. Straightening, he surveyed their surroundings briefly before his piercing gaze found Beatrix. He stared at her with the barely suppressed wrath of a man to whom entirely too much had happened.
Lisa Kleypas
#7. Beatrix wished she were a swooning sort of female. It seemed the only appropriate response to the situation.
Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to summon a swoon, her mind remained intractably conscious.
Lisa Kleypas
#8. To Christopher's amazement, Albert didn't move. A dog who thought nothing of running through gunfire was completely cowed by Beatrix Hathaway.
Lisa Kleypas
#9. 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
#10. We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.
Nikki Giovanni
#11. Amelia wondered why, when there was so much to be done, Beatrix would be so troublesome. But a smile rose to her lips as she reflected that fifteen-year-old girls didn't choose to be troublesome. They simply were.
Lisa Kleypas
#12. With all due respect," Christopher muttered, "this conversation is leading nowhere. At least one of you should point out that Beatrix deserves a better man."
"That's what I said about my wife," Leo remarked. "Which is why I married her before she could find one.
Lisa Kleypas
#13. Beatrix, I'm not in the mood for virginal experimentation."
She gave him a purely ingenuous look. "Neither am I.
Lisa Kleypas
#14. You're not safe with me." He reached for the neckline of her bodice and yanked it together. While he fumbled to fasten it, Beatrix hiked up the side of her dress. A tug and a wriggle, and her petticoat dropped to the floor.
"I can undress faster than you can dress me," she informed him.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. Beatrix had met Christopher Phelan on two occasions, the first at a local dance, where she had judged him to be the most arrogant man in Hampshire. The next time she had met him was at a picnic, where she had revised her opinion: he was the most arrogant man in the entire world.
Lisa Kleypas
#16. Very well," Beatrix said reluctantly. "But I warn you, they may be resistant to the match."
"I'm resistant to the match," Christopher informed her. "At least we'll have that in common.
Lisa Kleypas
#17. You are my idea of perfection, Beatrix Heloise.
Lisa Kleypas
#19. Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?"
"They're ravished in haylofts?" she inquired hopefully.
Lisa Kleypas
#20. My companion doesn't like you, and my sister Amelia says she doesn't know you well enough to decide, but she's inclined not to like you.
"What about Beatrix?"
"She likes you. But then she likes lizards and snakes.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. I have to go back inside."
His arms loosened. "I thought you weren't worried about your reputation."
"Well, it can survive a little damage," Beatrix said reasonably. "But I'd rather not have the whole thing blown to smithereens.
Lisa Kleypas
#22. Earth to Beatrix: This was the night bus, not a Journey song. Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere. I was going home, and he was probably going to knock over a liquor store. When
Jenn Bennett
#23. Mr. Bayning is not a frog," Poppy protested. "You're right," Beatrix said. "That was very unfair to frogs, who are lovely creatures." As
Lisa Kleypas
#24. I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.
Jane Gardam
#26. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#27. No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.
Beatrix Farrand
#28. A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.
Lisa Kleypas
#29. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#30. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
#31. A bullet is worth a thousand threats. And I shot two.
Aleks Canard
#32. I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
Beatrix Of The Netherlands
#34. Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were
Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
Beatrix Potter
#37. Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.
Beatrix Campbell
#38. I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
Beatrix Potter
#39. A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
Beatrix Campbell
#41. Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
Beatrix Potter
#42. I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
Beatrix Potter
#43. There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
Beatrix Potter
#45. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#46. It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter
#47. Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.
Beatrix Campbell
#48. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#49. I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
Beatrix Potter
#50. I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
Beatrix Potter
#51. If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
Beatrix Potter
#52. I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.
Beatrix Potter
#53. Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail ...
Beatrix Potter
#54. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#55. For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
Beatrix Potter
#56. Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
Beatrix Potter
#57. WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!
Beatrix Potter
#58. Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.
Beatrix Campbell
#59. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#61. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#62. This is a fierce bad rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail.
Beatrix Potter
#63. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
Beatrix Potter
#64. We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
Beatrix Potter
#65. One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.
Beatrix Potter
#66. 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.
Beatrix Potter
#67. Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
#68. I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
Beatrix Potter
#69. I am aware these little books don't last long even if they are a success.
Beatrix Potter
#70. The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.
Beatrix Farrand
#71. Should it not be remembered that in setting a garden we are painting a picture?
Beatrix Farrand
#72. I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
Beatrix Potter
#73. Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
Beatrix Potter
