Beatrix Quotes
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Beatrix Quotes & Sayings
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
— Beatrix Potter
I am worn to a raveling.
— Beatrix Potter
A bullet is worth a thousand threats. And I shot two.
— Aleks Canard
Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?""They're ravished in haylofts?" she inquired hopefully. — Lisa Kleypas
I've had them both, and I don't think much of either.
— Beatrix Lehmann
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
— Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
— Beatrix Potter
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.
— Beatrix Potter
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
— Beatrix Potter
Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names wereFlopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. — Beatrix Potter
Thank goodness my education was neglected.
— Beatrix Potter
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
— Beatrix Potter
HONORINE BEATRIX
— Honore De Balzac
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
— Beatrix Potter
Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail ...
— Beatrix Potter
But not even Hitler can damage the fells'In 'The Tale of Beatrix Potter, A Autobiography' by Margaret Lane, first edition, page 170. — Beatrix Potter
WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!
— Beatrix Potter
The stars beckoned. And she had to go.
— Aleks Canard
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life.
— Beatrix Potter
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail. — Beatrix Potter
Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
— Beatrix Potter
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
— Beatrix Potter
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
— Beatrix Potter
Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
— Beatrix Potter
I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.
— Beatrix Of The Netherlands
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
— Beatrix Potter
But I did consider you," Peter assured me. "For quite a while. About half an hour. Beatrix wasn't too happy with me.
— Julie Berry
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.
— Beatrix Potter
One place suits on person, another place suits another person. For my part, I prefer to live in the country, like Timmy Willie.
— Beatrix Potter
I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
— Beatrix Potter
The essence of the enjoyment of a garden is that things should look as though they like to grow in it.
— Beatrix Farrand
You are my idea of perfection, Beatrix Heloise.
— Lisa Kleypas
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.
— Beatrix Potter
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
— Beatrix Potter
Nature is under control but not disturbed.
— Beatrix Of The Netherlands
A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.
— Lisa Kleypas
If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.
— Beatrix Potter
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
— Beatrix Potter
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
— Beatrix Potter
Beatrix, I'm not in the mood for virginal experimentation."She gave him a purely ingenuous look. "Neither am I. — Lisa Kleypas
No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.
— Beatrix Farrand