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
eye love-is blind-love
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
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.
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.
world want neverland
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy 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
inspirational real men
The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.
giving novelists fiction
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
death adventure organized-mind
Death is but the next great adventure.
boys genius
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
love dream fighting
I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?
book writing able
It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?
cheer-up dust needs
All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
breathe neverland dies
There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.