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
prepared dies
Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.
target lows aim
Those who aim low usually hit their targets.
school men want
I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.
dog mistake animal
I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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.
caring break china
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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."
air mushrooms people
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.
feet hiking trekking
Make your feet your friend.
exactly-is statistics three
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
pain memories heart
Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.
running balls cricket-funny
I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
funny men ribs
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.