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
differences scotch sometimes
I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
fire dinner fling
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
titles neverland leather
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.
explanation loathe
I do loathe explanations.
kinder
Always be a littler kinder than necessary.
prepared dies
Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.
target lows aim
Those who aim low usually hit their targets.
halloween night men
Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.
strange affair these-days
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
times-have-changed bye sitting
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."
exactly-is statistics three
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
science men doe
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
fame comfortable
You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
wells company explorers
I like well to be in the company of explorers