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Beatrix Potter Quotes

Beatrix Potter quotes

English Author July 28, 1866 – December 22, 1943

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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 idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden. Beatrix Potter
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 brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'.Quoted in The Tale of Beatrix Potter a Biography by Margaret Lane, First Edition p 32-33 Beatrix Potter
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
Beatrix Potter quote: "Believe there is a great power silently working all things for..."
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest. Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter quote: "Thank goodness my education was neglected."
Thank goodness my education was neglected. Beatrix Potter
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
Beatrix Potter quote: "Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have..."
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. Beatrix Potter
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
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
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own. Beatrix Potter
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
Beatrix Potter quote: "Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their..."
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. Beatrix Potter
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
Beatrix Potter quote: "I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence..."
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter quote: "This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and..."
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. Beatrix Potter

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