Quotes by : Beatrix Potter

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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