…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEFacts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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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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Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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.
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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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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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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