J.M. Barrie Quotes

Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

"But where do you live mostly now?"
With the lost boys."
Who are they?"
They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain."
What fun it must be!"
Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship."
Are none of the others girls?"
Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

"Second to the right, and straight on till morning."
That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland

She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite...