The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
JAMES M. BARRIEChildren have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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 am not young enough to know everything.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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”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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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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