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Beatrix Potter Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Thank goodness my education was neglected.”
— Beatrix Potter, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature
Tagged: educatin, Neglect, humor
“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
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