…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEI sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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!
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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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.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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