The Tailor of Gloucester Quotes

“In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.”
― Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester

“No more twist!”
― Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester

“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.”
― Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester

“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.”
― Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester

“It is in the old story that all the beasts can talk, in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say).”
― Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester