Quotes from James M. Barrie

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

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

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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

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

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

Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

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

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow