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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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