I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTERI have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERThere is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTERI remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
BEATRIX POTTERI 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.
BEATRIX POTTEROne 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 POTTERIn the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTERHere comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
BEATRIX POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
BEATRIX POTTERMrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
BEATRIX POTTER