James M. Barrie Quotes
She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.
If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water.
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.
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.
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.
Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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.
And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one has to do.
"Oh God if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once." It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
