Quotes About Barrie

Greyfriars School is like Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter stories and the whole world of magic is the world of J.M.Barrie.

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.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Stevenson's last year at Edinburgh University must have just about coincided with my first one, and Barrie must have been in that grey old nest of learning about the year 1876. Strange to think that I probably brushed elbows with both of them in the crowded portal.

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

Build a house?" exclaimed John."For the Wendy, " said Curly."For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!""That, " explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal.