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
kings examination want
...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
goes-on remember forget
And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
daughter years golden
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
moving boys fire
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
wind away-we-go teach
I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.
stars breathing littles
A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
kissing arrows said
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
cheer boys silence
Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?
two ends
Two is the beginning of the end.
love-you boys firsts
After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
islands rate rounds
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
knows asks
We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
sex jewels fats
Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?
writing biographies may
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.