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
wish enough hard
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
explanation loathe
I do loathe explanations.
wise mother children
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
titles neverland leather
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.
blessing wings perfect
Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
fire dinner fling
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
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.
writing biographies may
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
sex jewels fats
Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?
caring break china
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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.
children heaven littles
The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.
matter needs charm
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
kinder
Always be kinder than necessary.