Quotes by J. Barrie

• We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.
• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
• That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
• 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.
• Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
• Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
• 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.
• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.