…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIEWendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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Children 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.
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