Quotes by Beatrix Potter

About Beatrix Potter:

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated the British landscape and country life.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat...

Beatrix Potter

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

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

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.

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

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

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Beatrix Potter

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

Beatrix Potter

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imaginati...

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

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With opportunity the world is very interesting.

Beatrix Potter

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBeatrix Potter
  • DescriptionEnglish children's author
  • BornJuly 28, 1866
  • DiedDecember 22, 1943
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionMycologist; Writer; Illustrator
  • WorksThe Tale Of Peter Rabbit