James Matthew Barrie Quotes (35 Quotes)

Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, 'Ill see you again.'

Oh the gladness of her gladness when shes glad, And the sadness of her sadness when shes sad, But the gladness of her gladness And the sadness of her sadness Are as nothing, Charles, To the badness of her badness when shes bad.

Second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

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.

Them that has china plates themsels is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others.

Life is a cup of tea the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

What is algebra exactly is it those three-cornered things.

Ones religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

Do you believe in fairies ... If you believe, clap your hands.

The reason why birds fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

I can't sleep.

You've forgotten the grandest moral attribute of a Scotsman, Maggie, that he'll do nothing which might damage his career.

If you have it Love, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

The tragedy of the man who has found himself out.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

Failure is the path of least resistance.

It's grand, and ye canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

By the way, what a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be 'sorry' and admiration of each others play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.'

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

It has been said of the unseen army of the dead, on their everlasting march, that when they are passing a rural cricket ground, the Englishmen fall out of the ranks for a moment to lean over a gate and smile.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

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

If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

I know I'm not clever but I'm always right.

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from mans rib she was made from his funny bone.