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
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
sarcastic halloween night
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
inspirational motivational inspiring
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
poet
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
pirate weapons lovable
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
knowledge knowing-everything age
I am not young enough to know everything.