Quotes from James Matthew Barrie

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

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.

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

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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

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

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

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

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

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

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.