Boy, why are you crying?
JAMES M. BARRIE…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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.
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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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”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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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