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
strength children passion
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
time golden hours
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
dream father sacrifice
Mrs. Darling: There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams. Michael: Where did he put them? Mrs. Darling: He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.
boys dust years
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.
night long special
They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
equality may upstairs
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
success religion
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
inspirational life death
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
life drinking opportunity
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.
loss reality understanding
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
work ambition mind
Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
love men thinking
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
jealousy wedding wish
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
long littles fairy
Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them