She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIEHas it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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