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Beatrix Potter Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“I was never sent to school...it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).”
— Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Tagged: Education, School, Schooling, Originality, Conformity
“Once upon a time there was a serious, well-behaved young black cat. It belonged to a kind old lady who assured me that no other cat could compare with Kitty . . . She called it 'Kitty,' but Kitty called herself 'Miss Catherine St Quintin.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Kitty In Boots
Tagged: character, description, Imagination, humor
“This is a Tale about a tail — a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
Tagged: character, description, humor
“I feel much younger at thirty than I did at twenty; firmer and stronger both in mind and body.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: Age, Youth, Health, physical health
“Saw Oscar Wilde and his wife just going into the Fine Arts to see the Holman Hunt. He is not peculiar as far as I noticed, rather a fine looking gentleman, but inclined to stoutness. The lady was strangely dressed, but I did not know her in time to see well.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: description, character, humor
“I don't want lessons, I want practice. I hope it is not pride that makes me so stiff against teaching, but a bad or indifferent teacher is worse than none.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: Lessons, Learning, practice, Teaching, teaching methods
“This day last year, how time moves and what it brings! So cold and stormy, and yet such gleams of peace and light making the darkness stranger and more dreary. How will it end for me?”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: Weather, description, Poetic, Storms, Life
“It is all the same, drawing, painting, modelling, the irresistible desire to copy any beautiful object which strikes the eye.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: Desire, motivation, Create, creating, Art, beauty
“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, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tagged: Warning, accident, humor
“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were – Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Tagged: characters, Story, story telling, Imagination, rabbit
“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, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Tagged: Life, Living, purpose, Simple Pleasures, Childhood
“THIS is a fierce bad Rabbit;
look at his savage whiskers,
and his claws and his turned-up tail.

THIS is a nice gentle Rabbit.
His mother has given him a carrot.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit
Tagged: rabbit, book, Children, Poetry, humor
“I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: Childhood, Memories, Innocence, Imagination, play, Believe
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense, to fear no longer the terror that flieth by night, yet to feel truly and understand a little, a very little, of the story of life.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: Childhood, Innocence, Imagination, Life, Living, Learning, Explore
“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, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Tagged: Success, Fear, fear or failure
“Thank goodness my education was neglected.”
— Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Tagged: educatin, Neglect, humor
“All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
— Beatrix Potter, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1898
Tagged: Religion, Belief, Strife, Power, empowerment, Responsibility, Choices
“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, The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897
Tagged: Rest, urge, drawing, Needs, Desire
“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.”
— Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit and Eleven Other Favorite Tales
Tagged: eating, Sleepy, drowsy, relac, effects, humor, Peter Rabbit, charcter
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
— Beatrix Potter, How Not To Write A Book: An insider’s guide to successful writing and publishing
Tagged: Writing, Books, Story, Words, Imagination, Adventure
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