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. BARRIEBoy, why are you crying?
JAMES M. BARRIEHow shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
JAMES M. BARRIEIf I were younger, I’d know more.
JAMES M. BARRIE…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
JAMES M. BARRIEI sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
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. BARRIENever say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
JAMES M. BARRIEBut 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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThe Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
JAMES M. BARRIEDreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
JAMES M. BARRIEThose who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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