Quotes from Beatrix Potter

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 after all, because Tom Thumb paid for everything he broke. He found a crooked sixpence

He took a wrong turn—several wrong turns, and was quite lost. It

My Great-aunt Squintina (grand-mother of Cousin Tabitha Twitchit) -- died of a thimble in a Christmas plum pudding. I never put any article of metal in MY puddings or pies. (Explained by the very elegantly attired Duchess, at a luncheon party.)

larder. Also, there was Mrs. Tittlemouse's bedroom, where she slept in a

And one day a little old woman ran up and down

a time there were four little Rabbits

Which was ridiculous of Nutkin, because he had not got any ring to give to Old Brown.

into a can. It would have been a beautiful thing

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

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

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.

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.

I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding