James M. Barrie Quotes about Heart

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

Heart, Absence, Forgetful

She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.

James M. Barrie

Beautiful, Heart, Curves

James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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

James M. Barrie

Girl, Heart, Broken

Phebe A. Curtiss, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hans Christian Andersen (2017). “Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated): The Tailor of Gloucester, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree…”, p.350, e-artnow

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

James M. Barrie

Mother, Heart, Thinking

Phebe A. Curtiss, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hans Christian Andersen (2017). “Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated): The Tailor of Gloucester, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree…”, p.308, e-artnow