J.M. Barrie Quotes

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.

Forever is a very long time Peter

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Two is the beginning of the end.

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

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.

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

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

Boy, why are you crying?

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

If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water.

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.

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.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

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

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

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.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you, " which is also sound advice today!

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

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.