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.
James M. Barrie
A woman can be anything the man who loves here would have her be.
James M. Barrie
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
James M. Barrie
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M. Barrie
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
James M. Barrie
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
James M. Barrie
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. Barrie
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
James M. Barrie
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
James M. Barrie
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
James M. Barrie
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
James M. Barrie
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie
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Type:
Playwright
Date of Birth:
0000-00-00
Year of Death:
1937
Nationality:
British |
