James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 3

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

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

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

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

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.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

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.

But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

Just always be waiting for me.

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

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

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

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

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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

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

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

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

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

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

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

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Always be kinder than necessary.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.