In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTERThank goodness my education was neglected.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
-
-
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.
BEATRIX POTTER -
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
BEATRIX POTTER -
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTER -
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRIX POTTER -
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTER -
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTER -
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
BEATRIX POTTER -
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
BEATRIX POTTER -
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
BEATRIX POTTER -
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 -
When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
BEATRIX POTTER -
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 -
Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
BEATRIX POTTER -
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTER -
I am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTER






