Quotes from James M. Barrie

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

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

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

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

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

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it [charm], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

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.

You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

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

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

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

I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.