James M. Barrie Quotes

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

We are all failures – at least the best of us are.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

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!

…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?