27 Quotes by James Barrie
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
- Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
- That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
- The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
- There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
- To die will be an awfully big adventure.
- We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
- We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
- You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
- The most useless are those who never change through the years.
- Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
- Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
- A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
- Always be a little kinder than necessary.
- Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
- Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
- The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
- 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.
- A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
- For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
- I am not young enough to know everything.
- It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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