J.M. Barrie

Quotes

• “When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ ...”
• “Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth h...”
• “All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in...”
• “Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an e...”
• “Peter was a superb swordsman, and parried with dazzling rapidity; ever and anon he followed up a feint with a lunge that...”
• “Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very s...”
• “It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the falle...”
• “A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anythi...”
• “All remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book...”
• “Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they salu...”
• “...and as she was crossing to the day-nursery he added thoughtlessly, 'And shut that window. I feel a draught.' 'O Georg...”
• “It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if the...”
• “But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Pe...”
• “The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love wit...”
• “Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To ...”
• “A strange smile was playing about his face, and Wendy saw it and shuddered. While that smile was on his face no one dare...”
• “He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps h...”
• “On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear t...”
• “Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy," said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""Th...”
• “It is humiliating to have to confess that this conceit of Peter was one of his most fascinating qualities. To put it wit...”
• “You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free wil...”
• “It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fair...”
• “Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily."I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that...”
• “I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Bes...”
• “I can't come,' she said apologetically, 'I have forgotten how to fly.''I'll soon teach you again.''O Peter, don't waste ...”
• “Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a...”
• “Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're ...”
• “‎She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.”
• “The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”
• “Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.”
• “David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.”
• “POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.”
• “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
• “Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.”
• “He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.”
• “Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
• “If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear.”
• “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
• “Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night”
• “Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.”
• “Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams”
• “Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.”
• “Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”
• “It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
• “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
• “Courage is the thing. All goes if courage”
• “She says she glories in being abandoned”
• “He was top-heavy with conceit.”