Quotes by James M. Barrie

"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."

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

"It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have."

"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which."

"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds."

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

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

"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."

"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."

"I am not young enough to know everything."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

"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."