58 Quotes by Beatrix Potter

At a quarter past four to the minute, there came a most genteel little tap-tappity.

For behind the wooden wainscots of all the old houses in Gloucester, there are little mouse staircases and secret trap-doors; and the mice run from house to house through those long narrow passages; they can run all over the town without going into the streets.

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.