J.M. Barrie Quotes
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us.
It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.
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.
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
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.
Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.
No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.
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.
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.
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.
