James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 4

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• In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

  James M. Barrie

  Justice, England, Lawyer

  In R. E. Megarry 'Miscellany-at-Law' (1955) p. 254.

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• I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Dream, Fighting

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

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• For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Mother, Eye

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• Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Years

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.86, 谷月社

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• The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

  James M. Barrie

  Night, Waiting, Lasts

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Always be kinder than necessary.

  James M. Barrie

  Kinder

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• Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

  James M. Barrie

  Work, Ambition, Mind

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• Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Silly, Sleep

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

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• There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

  James M. Barrie

  Firsts, Lovers, Mets

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

  James M. Barrie

  Courage, Children, Lovely

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• Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

  James M. Barrie

  Boys, Childhood, Bed

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• You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

  James M. Barrie

  World, Want, Neverland

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• I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

  James M. Barrie

  Sleep, Home, Men

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

  James M. Barrie

  Knows, Asks

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.334, Jazzybee Verlag

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• She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

  James M. Barrie

  Kissing, Hands, Giving

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.20, 谷月社

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• But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.

  James M. Barrie

  Boys, Dust, Years

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

  James M. Barrie

  Years, Next Year, Cry

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.130, 谷月社

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• I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  1908 What Every Woman Knows (published 1918), act 3.

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• When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

  James M. Barrie

  Baby, Laughing, Nests

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.128, 谷月社

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• Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Boys, Voice

  "Peter Pan". Book by James M. Barrie, www.theguardian.com.

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• I do loathe explanations.

  James M. Barrie

  Explanation, Loathe

  "My Lady Nicotine". Book by James Matthew Barrie. Chapter 16, 1890.

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• Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

  James M. Barrie

  Times Have Changed, Bye, Sitting

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• You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Growing Up, Sorry

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.131, 谷月社

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• Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.

  James M. Barrie

  Hands, Feelings, Rooms

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

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