Beatrix Potter
18 quotes
Biography
"There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."
"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."
"Thank goodness my education was neglected."
"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..."
"Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter."
"Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor."
"This is a Tale about a tail — a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin."
"It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit."
"All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."
"All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."
"In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were green gooseberries and throstles [thrush], and the flowers they call ceninen [daffodils]. And leeks and cabbages also grew in that garden; and between long straight alleys, and apple-trained espaliers, there were beds of strawberries, and mint, and sage."
"If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good."
"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."
"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."
"I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations."
"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."
"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest."
"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest."