black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am worn to a raveling.

Beatrix Potter

We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTER

Adventure Home Live Stay World
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
BEATRIX POTTER

Matter Prejudice Quater Religion Think Thinking Three Tradition
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTER

Fear Leave Obliged Pudding
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
BEATRIX POTTER

Bed Eye Fell Flower God Land Lying Rough See Step Thank Walk
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Behavem Table Cat Dinner Favorite Habit Plate Scrap Taight
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
BEATRIX POTTER

Grew Made Myself Please Stories Up
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 POTTER

Brown Cap Cup Gown Hold Like Near Soap Stick Tea Wrong
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTER

Crowns Happy Marriage Old Fashioned
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
BEATRIX POTTER

Book Finishing Hate Year Yera
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
BEATRIX POTTER

Amongst Cabbage Lost Potato Shoe
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTER

Behave Belief Good Great Mind never Power Rest Silently Yourself
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
BEATRIX POTTER

Alive Beauty Born Brother Child Children Country Fresh Happen More Sometimes Town
The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
BEATRIX POTTER

Box Century Flower Garden Hedge Last Mysterious Overgrown People Rose Wood
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTER

Country Garden Little Name Once Rabbit Time Upon
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTER

Childhood Heaven More Real Spirit World
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.
BEATRIX POTTER

Beautiful Both Divine Equally Highest Lowest Nature Perfect

I am worn to a raveling.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am worn to a raveling.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Beatrix Potter Quotes