J.M. Barrie Quotes
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J.M. Barrie Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat. They
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
They have real glasses and real wine of three kinds, namely, blackthorn wine, berberris wine, and cowslip wine,
For, to a child, the oddest of things, and the most richly coloured picture-book, is that his mother was once a child also.
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.
For long I could not close my ears that night: I lay listening, I knew not what for. A scare was on me that made me dislike the dark,
They heard Peter crow. 'Peter!' they cried, for it was always thus that he signalled his return. 'Hide
Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life, The flag o' skull and bones, A merry hour, a hempen rope, And hey for Davy Jones.' At
He thought of hopping off in a comic sort of way till he was out of sight of her, and then never going near the spot any more.
He came back, and there was a greedy look in his eyes now which ought to have alarmed her, but did not. 'Oh,
Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know.
If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Better for Hook,' he cried, 'if he had had less ambition.' It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person. 'No
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake.
He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding.
He was so fond of her, he felt he could not live without her. "She will forget her mother in time, and be happy with me," he kept saying to himself,
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
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.
Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny.
The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals
He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.
Wall-flower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit, and Solomon's Seals juice is for bruises. They bruise very easily
Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
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.
She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.
It was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her. Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man.
The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths of the trees, heard the question put by every boy, and alas, they also heard Peter's answer.
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.