Beatrix Potter Quotes

I 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.

Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.

Everything was romantic in my imagination.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.

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.

Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.

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.

The shorter and the plainer the better.