James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 3

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• A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

  James M. Barrie

  Women, Men

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.30, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

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  Book, Add, Life Is

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• You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

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  Thinking, Air, Lovely

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.27, 谷月社

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• It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

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  May, Quixotic, Magnificent

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.121, 谷月社

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• It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

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  Book, Writing, Ears

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• Just always be waiting for me.

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  Waiting

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

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  Birthday, Baby, Laughter

  Peter Pan act 1 (1928)

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• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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  Inspirational, Eggs, Broken

  Peter Pan act 5 (1928)

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• The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

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  Death, Dying, Best Place

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

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  Beautiful, Stars, Forever

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Feelings

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.52, Jazzybee Verlag

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• i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

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  Clever, Knows

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• 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 our only joke. Every woman knows that.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Men, Thinking

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 4

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• All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

  James M. Barrie

  Titles, Neverland, Leather

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• There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

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  Sight, Scotland, World

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 2

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• I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?

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  Love, Dream, Fighting

  "Fictional character: Peter Pan". "Peter Pan", 2003.

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• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

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  Girl, Lonely, Children

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• Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.

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  Growing Up, Pimples, Grew Up

  "Fictional character: Captain Hook". "Peter Pan", 2003.

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• Always be kinder than necessary.

  James M. Barrie

  Kinder

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• The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

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  Night, Waiting, Lasts

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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  Work, Ambition, Mind

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• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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  Revenge, Opponents, Conflict

  Rectorial Address at St Andrew's, 3 May 1922, in The Times 4 May 1922

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• Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

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  Courage, Children, Lovely

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• I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

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  Men, Thinking, He Man

  1908 What Every Woman Knows (published 1918), act 3.

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• 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.

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  Fall, Past, Interesting

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