James M. Barrie Quotes About Adventure

Quotes about: Adventure

• To die will be an awfully big adventure.

  James M. Barrie

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  Peter Pan act 3 (1928) See Frohman 1

• Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Boys, Rocks

  Peter Pan act 3 (1928) See Frohman 1

• Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.

  James M. Barrie

  Real, Distance, Adventure

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.5, 谷月社

• Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Care, Woe

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.40, 谷月社

• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Lonely, Stars, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

• Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Father, Adventure

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

• Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Tea, Firsts

  "Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels".

• Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Rocks, Next

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

• Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Games, Helping

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.60, 谷月社

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