James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 5

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

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

Two is the beginning of the end.

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.

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.

Never is an awfully long time.

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.

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

..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.

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

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

asleep to rummage in their minds

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

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

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

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

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

Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

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.

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.

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.