James M. Barrie quotes:

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

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

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

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.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

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

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

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Life is a long lesson in humility.

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.

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

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.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.

For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

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

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

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

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

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

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

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

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era..

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

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

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

For to have faith, is to have wings" Peter Pan

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

I am the best there ever was!

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

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

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

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.

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.

He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Because you see 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. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

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.

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.

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

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

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

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

You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again. Never is an awfully long time.

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

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

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

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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

Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?

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.

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

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

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

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

Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

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.

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.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

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

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.

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.

astonishing splashes of colour

asleep to rummage in their minds

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

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

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

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

Just always be waiting for me.

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

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.