We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTERWe cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
BEATRIX POTTERDon’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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 POTTERSunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
BEATRIX POTTERWhat 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 POTTERWith opportunity the world is very interesting.
BEATRIX POTTERI am worn to a raveling.
BEATRIX POTTERHere comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
BEATRIX POTTERI hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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 POTTERThe shorter and the plainer the better.
BEATRIX POTTEREverything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTERThank 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 POTTERBelieve there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
BEATRIX POTTER