James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 6

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• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

  James M. Barrie

  Equality, May, Upstairs

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

  James M. Barrie

  Pirate, Weapons, Killing

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.44, 谷月社

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• 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

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• I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

  James M. Barrie

  Running, Balls, Cricket

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• In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

  James M. Barrie

  Art, Making Love, Done

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• Thus sharply did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Islands, Differences

  "Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy)".

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• They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Desert, Novelty

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• What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.

  James M. Barrie

  Wish, Splendid, Peter

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.119, Jazzybee Verlag

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• That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.

  James M. Barrie

  Echoes, Hands, Names

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.9, 谷月社

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• The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

  James M. Barrie

  Science, Men, Doe

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• I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

  James M. Barrie

  Life, Drinking, Opportunity

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• The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

  James M. Barrie

  Giving, Novelists, Fiction

  "The Contemporary Review" Magazine, 1891.

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• Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

  James M. Barrie

  Art, Eggs, Broken

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.

  James M. Barrie

  Boys, Peter, Wendy

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• If I were younger, I'd know more.

  James M. Barrie

  Wisdom, Age, Aging

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• Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Selfish, Heartless

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

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• Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Fairy, Don't Believe

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• Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Way, Respect Women

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.13, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

  James M. Barrie

  Breathe, Neverland, Dies

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.88, 谷月社

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• I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

  James M. Barrie

  Mean, Smoking, Slavery

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• After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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  Love You, Boys, Firsts

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.88, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Eye, Humble

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?

  James M. Barrie

  Sex, Jewels, Fats

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• How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

  James M. Barrie

  Morning, Upper Class, Pull Ups

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• David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

  James M. Barrie

  Fairy, Feels

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.113, Jazzybee Verlag

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