Beatrix Potter Quotes

Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman ha...

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

In Summer there were white and damask roses, and the smell of thyme and musk. In Spring there were g...

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind ...

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

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

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a...

Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: ...

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where th...

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind ...

If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I hav...

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fell...

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was...