James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
James M. Barrie quotes about
stars silly sleep
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
wrath tree usual
He was so full of wrath against grown-ups, who as usual, were spoiling everything, that as soon as he got inside his tree he breathed intentionally quick short breaths at the rate of about five to a second. He did this because there is a saying in the Neverland, that everytime you breathe, a grown-up dies; and Peter was killing them of vindictively as fast as possible.
death travel adventure
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
fairy feels
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
boys peter wendy
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
lonely stars children
Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.
wings have-faith peter
For to have faith, is to have wings" Peter Pan
kissing hands giving
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.
school want solemn
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.
feelings use way
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
mother-daughter mother-and-daughter my-daughter
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
weapons next blades
Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
sarcastic
She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
dream book love-you
You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.