Quotes by 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.””

“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.””

“Thank goodness my education was neglected.””

“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 imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.””

“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?””

“If I have done anything, even a little, to help small children enjoy honest, simple pleasures, I have done a bit of good.””

“I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.””

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

“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's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.””

“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.””

“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.””

“This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.””