Beatrix Potter Quotes, Thoughts and images

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

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.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

The shorter and the plainer the better.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little older woman was Surely a mouse!

I am worn to a raveling.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

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.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born