…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIE…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEBoy, why are you crying?
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. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
JAMES M. BARRIE…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIEThem that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
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. BARRIEThere is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
JAMES M. BARRIEIf I were younger, I’d know more.
JAMES M. BARRIEThose who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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. BARRIEAlways try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
JAMES M. BARRIENever say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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. BARRIE