James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 6

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• We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.

  James M. Barrie

  Real, Character, Humility

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

  James M. Barrie

  Daughter, Mother, Honesty

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.392, 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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• Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.

  James M. Barrie

  Adventure, Rocks, Next

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.90, Jazzybee Verlag

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• That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

  James M. Barrie

  Jealousy, Wedding, Wish

  Quality Street (performed 1901, pubd. 1913) act 1

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• They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

  James M. Barrie

  Night, Long, Special

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• He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

  James M. Barrie

  Sinister, Polite

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.55, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

  James M. Barrie

  God, Heaven, Religion

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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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• Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?" Nothing, precious," she said; "they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.

  James M. Barrie

  Mother, Children, Eye

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.15, 谷月社

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• A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic, Halloween, Night

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.201, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

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  Two, Ends, Knows

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

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• Two is the beginning of the end.

  James M. Barrie

  Two, Ends

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

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• Never is an awfully long time.

  James M. Barrie

  Long, Long Time

  "Fictional character: Wendy Darling". "Peter Pan", www.imdb.com. December 9, 2003.

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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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• She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.

  James M. Barrie

  Morning, Neverland, Peter

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.18, 谷月社

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• Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

  James M. Barrie

  Weapons, Next, Blades

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad

  James M. Barrie

  Women, Sadness, Badness

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• ..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Believe, Fall

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.21, 谷月社

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• In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.

  James M. Barrie

  Art, Making Love, Done

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• One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

  James M. Barrie

  Pirate, Weapons, Killing

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.44, 谷月社

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• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

  James M. Barrie

  Equality, May, Upstairs

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

  James M. Barrie

  Running, Balls, Cricket

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• She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.

  James M. Barrie

  Sarcastic

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• He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

  James M. Barrie

  Poet

  James M. Barrie (1909). “The Little White Bird”, p.58, Jazzybee Verlag

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