James M. Barrie Quotes

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

I do loathe explanations.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

For to have faith, is to have wings Peter Pan

I've sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.

Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing ... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

I like well to be in the company of explorers

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era..

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

Always be kinder than necessary.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.