Quotes About Beatrix

from Beatrix in this case, who quoted the esteemed Swedish botanical taxonomist Carl Linnaeus on how to distinguish minerals from plants, and plants from animals: "Stones grow. Plants grow and live. Animals grow, live, and feel

WHEN THEY SAT down to dinner, Hawksworth looked twice into his soup bowl—belly up, soft and white, tiny little feet, spiny back, sleepy eyes. "Excuse me," he said. "But there seems to be a hedgehog in my soup." "There you are, you naughty—" Beatrix's expression melted with love, and she smiled. "Oh, how cute. Nanny is having a nice warm soak.

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

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

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

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It depends on whether the monkey is more intelligent than we are." "I'm rather afraid of the answer," Harry replied dryly. - Beatrix & Harry

Her younger sister was at ease with men in a way that Poppy could never manage. They seemed to adore Beatrix because she treated them as she did her wild creatures, gently humoring, showing patient interest.

My companion doesn't like you, and my sister Amelia says she doesn't know you well enough to decide, but she's inclined not to like you. "What about Beatrix?" "She likes you. But then she likes lizards and snakes.