James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 3

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• All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

  James M. Barrie

  Cheer Up, Dust, Needs

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• 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.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Time, Golden

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• Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Hands, Fairy

  Peter Pan act 4 (1928)

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• Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

  James M. Barrie

  Odd Things, Way, Happened

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.128, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

  James M. Barrie

  School, Want, Solemn

  James M. Barrie (2011). “Peter Pan (小飛俠彼得潘)”, p.677, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

  James M. Barrie

  Women, Men

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Dream, Sacrifice

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• It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

  James M. Barrie

  May, Quixotic, Magnificent

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.121, 谷月社

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• It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Tinkerbell, Fairy

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.96, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Stars, Forever

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• She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Running, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.101, 谷月社

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• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Eggs, Broken

  Peter Pan act 5 (1928)

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• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Lonely, Children

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• Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Feelings

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.52, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

  James M. Barrie

  Wise, Mother, Children

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.140, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

  James M. Barrie

  Death, Dying, Best Place

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• I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

  James M. Barrie

  Neverland, Chasing, Crocodiles

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• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

  James M. Barrie

  Revenge, Opponents, Conflict

  Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922

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• The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Heaven, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

  James M. Barrie

  Eye, Love Is, Blind Love

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

  James M. Barrie

  Sight, Scotland, World

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 2

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

  James M. Barrie

  Growing Up, Pimples, Grew Up

  "Fictional character: Captain Hook". "Peter Pan", 2003.

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• 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.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Pockets, Ink

  Speech at the Critics' Circle in London, 26 May 1922, in The Times 27 May 1922

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• Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Worry, Forget

  "Fictional character: Peter Pan". "Peter Pan", www.imdb.com. December 9, 2003.

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• All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

  James M. Barrie

  Titles, Neverland, Leather

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