Beatrix Potter Quotes

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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were—Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.

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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is "soporific." I have never felt sleepy after eating lettuces; but then I am not a rabbit.

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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the cause of endless strife.... Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

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Thank 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.

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

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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets—when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta—there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

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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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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: "One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.

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I am undone and worn to a thread-paper, for I have no more twist.

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For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets.

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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My brother and I were born in London...but our descent, our interest and our joy were in the north country'.

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I do so hate finishing books, I would like to go on with them for years.

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I have felt very tired and aged the last two years. Maybe the surgeon will put me right — but he cannot put me young again.

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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

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The water was all slippy-sloppy in the larder and the back passage. But Mr. Jeremy liked getting his feet wet; nobody ever scolded him, and he never caught a cold.

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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

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This is a Tale about a tail — a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.

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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

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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. Mrs. Tiggy-winkle's hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn't like to sit too near her.

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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

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Then there was no end to the rage and disappointment of Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca.

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Thank goodness, my education was neglected and the originality was not rubbed off.

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

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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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