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. 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. BARRIE…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIEAlways try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
JAMES M. BARRIEThose who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
JAMES M. BARRIEBoy, why are you crying?
JAMES M. BARRIEThe Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
JAMES M. BARRIEThem that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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. 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. 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. BARRIEIf I were younger, I’d know more.
JAMES M. BARRIEA woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
JAMES M. BARRIE