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.
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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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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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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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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