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List of Beatrix Potter Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 37 inspiring quotes by Beatrix Potter.

About Beatrix Potter

  • Born: July 28, 1866
  • Died: December 22, 1943
  • Occupation: Author
    • It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
    Country Children Alive
    I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
    Pudding Obliged
    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'. quoted in the tale of beatrix potter a biography by margaret lane, first edition p 32-33
    Country Brother Children
    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.
    Fire Hands Tea
    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.
    Mother Taken Tea
    Thank goodness my education was neglected.
    Homeschooling Goodness Neglected
    This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
    Rabbits Savages Tails
    Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
    Lost Ones Shoes Cabbage
    I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
    Thinking Prejudice Three
    I am worn to a raveling.
    Worn
    I think if she lived in a little shoe-house that little old woman was surely a mouse!
    Thinking Shoes House
    Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were mitten, tom kitten, and moppet. they had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
    Cat Dust Names
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