Quotes from J.M. Barrie

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

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

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

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

She says she glories in being abandoned

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

Temper [is] a weapon that we hold by the blade.

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.

It is wonderful how much you can conceal between the touch of the handle and the opening of the door if your heart is in it.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead.

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

To enjoy your holiday in bed to the full, you should let it be vaguely understood that there is something amiss with you. Don't go into details, for they are not necessary; and, besides, you want to be dreamy more or less, and the dreamy state is not consistent with a definite ailment.

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

Do you believe in fairies? If you believe clap your hands. Don't let Tinker die.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

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

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.