Quotes by James M. Barrie

"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."

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

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I am not young enough to know everything."

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

"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."

"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."

"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else."

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

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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