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
pudding obliged
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
perfection arguing
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
country children alive
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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.
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.
hate book years
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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.
real childhood heaven
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
education learning school
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.