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 fi….

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe..

They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there w….

She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that com….

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education..

In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done..

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

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

When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even w….

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael….

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned..

Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on ….

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon tha….

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars..

All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind..

After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy..

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't..

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somew….

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again..

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..