James M. Barrie Quotes

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

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

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

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

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.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

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

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

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

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

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

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

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

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

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

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

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

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

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

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

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

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

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.

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

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

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

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.