James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 3

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

  James M. Barrie

  Heart, Absence, Forgetful

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• Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Dream, Sacrifice

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

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  Women, Men

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

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• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

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  Love, Humble, Doe

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• I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things.

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  School, Want, Solemn

  James M. Barrie (2011). “Peter Pan (小飛俠彼得潘)”, p.677, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Time, Golden

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• Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

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  Believe, Hands, Fairy

  Peter Pan act 4 (1928)

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• 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. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

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  Needs, Matter, Charm

  'What Every Woman Knows' (performed 1908, published 1918) act 1

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• All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

  James M. Barrie

  Cheer Up, Dust, Needs

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• It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

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  Children, Tinkerbell, Fairy

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.96, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

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  Odd Things, Way, Happened

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.128, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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.

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  Love, Men, Thinking

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 4

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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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• 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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• Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.

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  Wise, Mother, Children

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.140, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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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• I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.

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  Neverland, Chasing, Crocodiles

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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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• 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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• She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

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  Beautiful, Running, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.101, 谷月社

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• For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Pockets, Ink

  Speech at the Critics' Circle in London, 26 May 1922, in The Times 27 May 1922

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