James M. Barrie Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

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.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

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

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

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