J.M. Barrie Quotes

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

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!

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

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

"Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"

"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants."

We are all failures- at least the best of us are.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.