J M Barrie Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about J M Barrie

J M Barrie Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational J M Barrie quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I'm burning. — J.M. Barrie

but I dared not tell him my suspicions, for he suspected also and his gentle heart would have mourned had I confirmed his fears. The — J.M. Barrie

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. — J.M. Barrie

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate. — J.M. Barrie

We are all failures- at least the best of us are. — J.M. Barrie

Do you want an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first? — J.M. Barrie

He decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal. — J.M. Barrie

to have faith is to have wings. Now, — J.M. Barrie

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy. — J.M. Barrie

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

Nonsense. Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older, and then before you know it, they're grown. — J.M. Barrie

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears? — J.M. Barrie

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly. — J.M. Barrie

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. — J.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. — J.M. Barrie

Two is the beginning of the end. — J.M. Barrie

I can give you the power to fly to her house," the Queen said, "but I can't open the door for you. — J.M. Barrie

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience ... and pimples. — J.M. Barrie

Forever is a very long time Peter — J.M. Barrie

It was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England. — J.M. Barrie

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. — J.M. Barrie

To die will be an awfully big adventure. — J.M. Barrie

Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her. Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man. — J.M. Barrie

If you wish it.
Slightly: If you wish it?
Peter: IF YOU WISH IT. — J.M. Barrie

Asleep to rummage in their minds — J.M. Barrie

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time. — J.M. Barrie

The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths of the trees, heard the question put by every boy, and alas, they also heard Peter's answer. — J.M. Barrie

Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash. — J.M. Barrie

Even though you want to try to, never grow up — J.M. Barrie

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me. — J.M. Barrie

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life. — J.M. Barrie

I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying. — J.M. Barrie

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again. — J.M. Barrie

Fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them — J.M. Barrie

Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night — J.M. Barrie

I am the best there ever was! — J.M. Barrie

What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said. — J.M. Barrie

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — J.M. Barrie

All you need is Faith, Trust and a little Pixie Dust — J.M. Barrie

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be? — J.M. Barrie

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. — J.M. Barrie

He swore this terrible oath: Hook or me this time. — J.M. Barrie

....And for that instant his sun was at noon. — J.M. Barrie

I remember kisses," said Slightly. "Let me see. Aye, that is a kiss. A powerful thing. — J.M. Barrie

Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead — J.M. Barrie

Wall-flower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit, and Solomon's Seals juice is for bruises. They bruise very easily — J.M. Barrie

It was the work of one brutal moment to land the beautiful girl on the rock; she was too proud to offer a vain resistance. — J.M. Barrie

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

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. — J.M. Barrie

Boy, why are you crying? — J.M. Barrie

Better for Hook,' he cried, 'if he had had less ambition.' It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person. 'No — J.M. Barrie

Wendy came first, then John, then Michael. — J.M. Barrie

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman. — J.M. Barrie

I can't come,' she said apologetically, 'I have forgotten how to fly.'
'I'll soon teach you again.'
'O Peter, don't waste the fairy dust on me. — J.M. Barrie

Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. — J.M. Barrie

They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake. — J.M. Barrie

I do believe in fairies! I do! I do! — J.M. Barrie

Why, what is the matter, father dear?' 'Matter!' he yelled; he really yelled. 'This tie, it will not tie. — J.M. Barrie

John and Michael raced, Michael getting a start. — J.M. Barrie

If you knew how great is a mother's love, you would have no fear. — J.M. Barrie

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys. — J.M. Barrie

Yes, it is a dull beginning. I say, let us pretend that it is the end. — J.M. Barrie

All children, except one, grow up. — J.M. Barrie

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't. — J.M. Barrie

My dog knows very little, but what little he does know he knows extraordinarily well. — J.M. Barrie

I'm not young enough to know everything. — J.M. Barrie

He was so fond of her, he felt he could not live without her. "She will forget her mother in time, and be happy with me," he kept saying to himself, — J.M. Barrie

The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals — J.M. Barrie

I forget them after I kill them,' he replied carelessly. When — J.M. Barrie

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him. — J.M. Barrie

And thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless. — J.M. Barrie

You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter Pan's adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens. — J.M. Barrie

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep. — J.M. Barrie

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true. — J.M. Barrie

There never was a simpler, happier family until the coming of Peter Pan. — J.M. Barrie

A child should never go to bed, they only wake up a day older. — J.M. Barrie

There was a commotion in the firmament, and the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way screamed out: Now, Peter! — J.M. Barrie

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. — J.M. Barrie

It can be only the memory of some woman," said she, "that makes you so kind to me — J.M. Barrie

The moment where you doubt you can fly, you cease forever being able to do it. — J.M. Barrie

She did not yet know that Tink hated her with the fierce hatred of a very woman. — J.M. Barrie

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. — J.M. Barrie

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. — J.M. Barrie

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon. — J.M. Barrie

He (Captain Hook) was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding. — J.M. Barrie

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air. — J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie was right; it is an awfully big adventure! — Paul James

If it's meant to be, it will be. — J.M. Barrie

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.
That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland — J.M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. — J.M. Barrie

Growing up is simply getting old. Growing up is when you don't believe anymore — J.M. Barrie

POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince. — J.M. Barrie

Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs. — J.M. Barrie

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.'
Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me. — J.M. Barrie

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it. — J.M. Barrie

No matter how hard we try to be mature, we will always be a kid when we all get hurt and cry — J.M. Barrie

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever. — J.M. Barrie

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite ... — J.M. Barrie

Always be a little kinder than necessary. — J.M. Barrie

Do you believe in fairies? ... If you believe, clap your hands! — J.M. Barrie