I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIEI sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
JAMES M. BARRIEShe asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
JAMES M. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
JAMES M. BARRIEAbsence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
JAMES M. BARRIEHas it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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. 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. BARRIEThem that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
JAMES M. BARRIEA woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
JAMES M. BARRIEHow shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
JAMES M. BARRIEAlways try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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. BARRIE”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
JAMES M. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
JAMES M. BARRIESo 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!
JAMES M. BARRIE