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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
— James M. Barrie
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
— James M. Barrie
I like well to be in the company of explorers
— James M. Barrie
I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls ...
— James M. Barrie
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
— James M. Barrie
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
— James M. Barrie
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
— James M. Barrie
In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
— James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
— James M. Barrie
Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?
— James M. Barrie
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
— James M. Barrie
You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
— James M. Barrie
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
— James M. Barrie
If I were younger, I'd know more.
— James M. Barrie
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
— James M. Barrie
I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
— James M. Barrie
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
— James M. Barrie
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
— James M. Barrie
I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.
— James M. Barrie
Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.
— James M. Barrie
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
— James M. Barrie
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
— James M. Barrie
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
— James M. Barrie
All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
— James M. Barrie
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
— James M. Barrie
James Hook, thou not wholly unheroic figure, farewell. For we have come to his last moment.
— J.M. Barrie
Make your feet your friend.
— James M. Barrie
They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
— James M. Barrie
How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?
— James M. Barrie
Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
— James M. Barrie
And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
— James M. Barrie
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
— James M. Barrie
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
— James M. Barrie
Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
— James M. Barrie
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
— James M. Barrie
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
— James M. Barrie
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
— James M. Barrie
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
— James M. Barrie
Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.
— James M. Barrie
Always be kinder than necessary.
— James M. Barrie
Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
— James M. Barrie
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
— James M. Barrie
For to have faith, is to have wings Peter Pan
— James M. Barrie
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
— James M. Barrie
Always be a littler kinder than necessary.
— James M. Barrie
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
— James M. Barrie
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
— James M. Barrie
We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.
— James M. Barrie
We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
— James M. Barrie
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
— James M. Barrie
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
— James M. Barrie
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
— James M. Barrie
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
— James M. Barrie
Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
— James M. Barrie
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You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
— James M. Barrie
Those who aim low usually hit their targets.
— James M. Barrie
I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
— James M. Barrie
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
— James M. Barrie
One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.
— James M. Barrie
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
— James M. Barrie
As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
— James M. Barrie
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
— James M. Barrie
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
— James M. Barrie
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
— James M. Barrie
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
— James M. Barrie
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
— James M. Barrie
I do loathe explanations.
— James M. Barrie
A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.
— James M. Barrie
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
— James M. Barrie
Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
— James M. Barrie
Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing ... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.
— James M. Barrie
All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
— James M. Barrie
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
— James M. Barrie
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
— James M. Barrie
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
— James M. Barrie
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
— James M. Barrie
