Mrs. 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 POTTERThis is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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.
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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