Quotes by
James Barrie |
1860-1937 , English writer
Sir James Matthew Barrie was a Scottish novelist and dramatist, more commonly known as J. M. Barrie. He is most famous as the author of the play Peter Pan, or “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up”. | 34 quotes | 1,487 visits |
Quotations
| • | The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. — Peter Pan 7 |
| • | The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. 7 |
| • | Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. 6 |
| • | If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company. 5 |
| • | Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? 5 |
| • | The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. 5 |
| • | All children, except one, grow up. — Peter Pan 4 |
| • | Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. 4 |
| • | I’m not young enough to know everything. 4 |
| • | Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies. 4 |
| • | To live will be an awfully big adventure. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. 3 |
| • | Second star to the right and straight on till morning. — Peter Pan |
| • | All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. |
| • | To die will be an awfully big adventure. |
| • | Life is a long lesson in humility. |
| • | God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. |
| • | One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. |
| • | I do loathe explanations. |
| • | Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. |
| • | I'll teach you to jump on the wind's back and then away we go. |
| • | Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. |
| • | We are all failures- at least the best of us are. |
| • | All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again. |
| • | What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will. |
| • | We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. |
| • | Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. |
| • | Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. |
| • | I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man. |
| • | He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up. |
| • | What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? |
