James M. Barrie Quotes

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

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

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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

All children, except one, grow up.

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

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

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.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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.

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

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.

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

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.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

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

Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

Make your feet your friend.

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

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

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

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.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

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

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

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

I am the best there ever was!

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

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

Always be kinder than necessary.

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

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

I do loathe explanations.