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
stars silly sleep
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
death travel adventure
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
fairy feels
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
boys peter wendy
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
wings have-faith peter
For to have faith, is to have wings" Peter Pan
school want solemn
I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.
feelings use way
Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
mother-daughter mother-and-daughter my-daughter
Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.
weapons next blades
Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
night long special
They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
equality may upstairs
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
success religion
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
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.