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
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.
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.
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.
kindness littles milk
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
house stories neverland
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
scotland sight world
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
death dying best-place
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
neverland happened happens
All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.
birthday baby laughing
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
prayer tonight language
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.