There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
BEATRIX POTTERDon’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
More Beatrix Potter Quotes
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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