Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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.
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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.
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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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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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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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