James M. Barrie Quotes (36 Quotes)

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

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

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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.

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next instant, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

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 see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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.

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

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!