…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEHas it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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”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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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