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
real character humility
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
bride good jealousy wishes
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
loves unhappy
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
gave god memories might roses
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
book firsts pockets
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
work
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
lets likes man
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
best
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
inspirational happiness success
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
inspirational life feelings
Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
weapons blades temper
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
motivational work office-jobs
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
motivational change years
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
inspirational failure get-better
We are all failures - at least the best of us are.