Quotes from James M. Barrie

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.

Forever is a very long time Peter

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

..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 somewhere that falls down dead.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

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

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

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

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.

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy 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.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

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.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

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

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

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.

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

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

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.