Quotes from Beatrix Potter

let us collect our property - and other people's - and depart at once

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

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.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit Table of Contents

What a thing it is to have an unruly family!

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

that the doll's house belonged to said: I will get a doll dressed like a policeman! BUT the nurse said: I will set a mouse-trap! SO that is the story of the two Bad Mice. But they were not so very, very naughty

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

But round the end of a cucumber frame, whom should he meet but Mr. McGregor!

Presently Peter sneezed Kertyschoo!

your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

Thank goodness my education was neglected. I was never sent to school...it would have rubbed off some of the originality (if I had not died of shyness or been killed with over pressure).

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

It is in the old story that all the beasts can talk, in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say).

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i do so hate finishing books. i would like to go on with them for years.

onions in a bag. She

he had grown; several buttons burst off. His

He was sitting on a log; he sniffed the air and

He led the way to a very retired, dismal-looking house amongst the fox-gloves. It

Cannot put Humpty Dumpty to rights!

kept glancing uneasily

everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence under the hearth-rug; and upon Christmas Eve he and Hunca Munca stuffed it into one

sees them trapped and they are rescued by Benjamin's