Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potterwas an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth28 July 1866
CityLondon, England
father garden pie
Don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
inspirational failure people
Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
beautiful perfect divine
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
children real believe
I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense.
lying flower eye
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.
writing written-language
The shorter and the plainer the better.
children growing-up flower
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
cat sunday two
Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.
stories grew made
I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
hate book years
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
crowns happy-marriage old-fashioned
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
desire stronger poor
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
children hands imagination
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
opportunity interesting world
With opportunity the world is very interesting.