James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 9

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• The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Boys, Differences

  "Peter Pan". Book by J. M. Barrie. Chapter 6: "The Little House", 1911.

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• Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Father, Adventure

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

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• He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

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  Awake, Not Sure, Knows

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.98, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Race, Wind

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• You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

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  Spring, Kissing, Cleaning

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.129, 谷月社

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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.

  James M. Barrie

  Science, Men, Research

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

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Beautiful, Wall

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

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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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• In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

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  Practice, Want, Hats

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.129, 谷月社

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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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• This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

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  Believe, Greed, Tea

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Boy, why are you crying?

  James M. Barrie

  Boys, Cry

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

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• There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

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  Children, Boys, Sight

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.125, 谷月社

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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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• 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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• Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Rivers, Lakes

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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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• 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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• Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.

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  Daughter, Years, Ink

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.151, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others

  James M. Barrie

  Caring, Break, China

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• Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.

  James M. Barrie

  Littles, Peter, Cleverness

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• Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

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  Tea, Cups, Life Is

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

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  Stars, Breathing, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.

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  Hands, Sigh Of Relief, Promise

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.42, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man.

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  School, Men, Want

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

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