Quotes from James M. Barrie

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

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

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

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

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

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

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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