James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 9

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• Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.

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  Night, House, Parent

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• I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

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  School, Men, Want

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

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• I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

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  Dog, Mistake, Animal

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• I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.

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  Girl, Thinking, Lovely

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

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  Tea, Cups, Life Is

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

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  Strange, Affair, These Days

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• Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

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  Play, Peter

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• 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.

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  Children, Father, Adventure

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

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• Forever is a very long time Peter

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  Long, Forever, Peter

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• The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

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  Believe, Boys, Differences

  "Peter Pan". Book by J. M. Barrie. Chapter 6: "The Little House", 1911.

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• ...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

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  Kings, Paper, Examination

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.33, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

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  Fame, Comfortable

  'The Little Minister' (1891) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.

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  Long, Bells, Littles

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

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• There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

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  Children, Boys, Sight

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.125, 谷月社

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• You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

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  Spring, Kissing, Cleaning

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.129, 谷月社

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• Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

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  God, Heaven, Religion

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• When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.

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  Mother, Dream, Lasts

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.49, 谷月社

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• You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

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  Love, Beautiful, Wall

  James M. Barrie (1900). “Tommy and Grizel”

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• The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

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  Smoking, Age, Might

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

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• Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

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  Science, Relief, Acquisition

  'Love Me Never or For Ever'

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• She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner.

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  Sweet, Kissing, Hands

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

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• He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

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  Awake, Not Sure, Knows

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

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  Prayer, Tonight, Language

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.71, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

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  Sorry, Games, Play

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I wasn't crying about mothers," he said rather indignantly. "I was crying because I can't get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn't crying.

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  Mother, Shadow, Sticks

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.18, 谷月社

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