Quotes by J. M. Barrie

She says she glories in being abandoned...

“ She says she glories in being abandoned “

-J. M. Barrie-

She says she glories in being abandoned

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

We are all failures – at least the best of us are.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

To love would be an awfully big adventure.

Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

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

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Those who play in the sun will find it hard to sleep in the shadows.

Nothing is really lost until your mother can't find it.

Everytime a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

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

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

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

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

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

If you have love, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, and they lift you up in the air.

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

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

To live will be an awfully big adventure.

All children, except one, grow up.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning.

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