James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 10

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• What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

  James M. Barrie

  Sorry, Games, Play

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

  James M. Barrie

  Reflection, Thinking, Form

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.123, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

  James M. Barrie

  Cheer, Boys, Silence

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• On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

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  Children, Land, Play

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.4, 谷月社

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• Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

  James M. Barrie

  Prayer, Tonight, Language

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.71, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

  James M. Barrie

  Thinking, Hands, House

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.115, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

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  Mother, Doors, Waiting

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens (Illustrated & Annotated Edition)”, p.89, Jazzybee Verlag

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• They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.

  James M. Barrie

  Air, Mushrooms, People

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• Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Baby, Boys

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.128, 谷月社

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• And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?

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  Goes On, Remember, Forget

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.45, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

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  Funny, Math, Science

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Two is the beginning of the end.

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  Two, Ends

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.1, 谷月社

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• They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  Phebe A. Curtiss, Beatrix Potter, Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hans Christian Andersen (2017). “Down the Chimney: 100+ Most Treasured Christmas Novels & Stories in One Volume (Illustrated): The Tailor of Gloucester, Little Women, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Heavenly Christmas Tree…”, p.308, e-artnow

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• For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing." "Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing." "Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom." "Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

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  Dark, Men, Two

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

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  Love, Beautiful, Wall

  James M. Barrie (1900). “Tommy and Grizel”

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• The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

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  Smoking, Age, Might

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

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  Science, Men, Research

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

  James M. Barrie

  Kissing, Arrows, Said

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.65, Jazzybee Verlag

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