J. M. Barrie
QuotationsAmbition--it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
We are all failures--at least, all the best of us are.
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. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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