Top 254 Quotes & Sayings by James M. Barrie
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist James M. Barrie.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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.
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.
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
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.
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
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.
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
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; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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.
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God. Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness.
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!
We are all failures - at least the best of us are.
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
The useless men are those who never change with the years.
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
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.
Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
Make your feet your friend.
Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?
Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
Those who aim low usually hit their targets.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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