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James Matthew Barrie
A safe but...
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for...
I have always...
I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
As soon as...
As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being...
We are all...
We are all failures -- at least, the best of us are.
Source: Rectorial address, 3...
Nothing is really...
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Source: In...
I'm youth, I'm...
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Source: In...
Every time a...
Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down...
As soon as...
As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on your way to...
It is all...
It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
Every man who...
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's...
Those who bring...
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
Ambition -- it...
Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Source: Sir Harry Sims...
Dreams do come...
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else...
It is not...
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Source:...
Always try to...
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
Source: In Readers'...
When the first...
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping...
God gave us...
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
Source: In Quotable...
What is algebra...
What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?
Source: Quality Street,...
The secret of...
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Some of my...
Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
Source:
-- James Matthew Barrie,...