Explore Quotes by James M. Barrie

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

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.

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.

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

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

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

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

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

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

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing." "Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing." "Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom." "Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.