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

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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

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

The shorter and the plainer the better.

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

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

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

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

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

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

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

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

Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that has wheels and can go away down the lanes and through the towns, and stand still in fields at night!

A clown needn't be the same out of the ring as he has to be when he's in it. If you look at photographs of clowns when they're just being ordinary men, they've got quite sad faces.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!