For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets.

— Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter Quotes

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.

— Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

— Beatrix Potter

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

— Beatrix Potter

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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding.

— Beatrix Potter

I am worn to a raveling.

— Beatrix Potter

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

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 remember every stone, every tree, the scent of heather... Even when the thunder growled in the distance, and the wind swept up the valley in fitful gusts, oh, it was beautiful, home sweet home.

— Beatrix Potter

There’s something delicious about writing those first few words of a story. You can never quite tell where they will take you. Mine took me here, where I belong.

— Beatrix Potter

At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity.

— Beatrix Potter

For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets.

— Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents.

— Beatrix Potter

WHAT a funny sight it is to see a brood of ducklings with a hen!

— Beatrix Potter

Presently Peter sneezed “Kertyschoo!

— Beatrix Potter

The collie-dog Kep met her coming out, “What are you doing with those onions? Where do you go every afternoon by yourself, Jemima Puddle-duck?” Jemima.

— Beatrix Potter

I am persuaded that the knots would have proved indigestible, whatever you may urge to the contrary.

— Beatrix Potter

From all the roofs and gables and old wooden houses in Gloucester came a thousand merry voices singing the old Christmas rhymes – all the old songs that ever I heard of, and some that I don’t know, like Whittington’s bells.

— Beatrix Potter

What a thing it is to have an unruly family!

— Beatrix Potter

They led prosperous and uneventful lives, and their end was bacon.

— Beatrix Potter

Beware of gunpowder, and ships cooks, and pantechnicons, and sausages, and shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax.

— Beatrix Potter

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