Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
JAMES M. BARRIENever say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
JAMES M. BARRIEAlways try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
JAMES M. BARRIEFor 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. BARRIEThem that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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.
JAMES M. BARRIEDreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
JAMES M. BARRIEA woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
JAMES M. BARRIEHas it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
JAMES M. BARRIEFeeling 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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIEThe Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
JAMES M. BARRIE…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIE