Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!
J. M. Barrie Quotes
1860–1937 Scotland
Sir James Matthew Barrie (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and dramatist, more commonly known as J. M.
- Scotland
- Academics
- Journalists
- Novelists
- Playwrights
Also known as: Barrie, J. M., J.M. Barrie, Margaret Ogilvy
62 quotes
Second to the right and then straight on till morning.
Peter Pan (1904)
Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom.
Peter Pan (1904)
Wendy, one girl is worth more than twenty boys.
Peter Pan (1904)
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Peter Pan (1904)
They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een.
The Little Minister (1891)
Strength, instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
The Little Minister (1891)
It is of another minister I am to tell, but only to those who know that light when they see it.
The Little Minister (1891)
Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
Peter Pan (1904)
Peter and Wendy (1911)
The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
It's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
Little Minister (1891)
Ambition—it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
The Little White Bird (1902)
Peter Pan (1904)
The Little White Bird (1902)
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
The new dictionary of thoughts: a Cyclopedia of Quotations (1930)
I'll teach you to jump on the wind's back and then away we go.
Peter Pan (1904)
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
Split my infinitives, but 'tis my hour of triumph!
Peter Pan (1904)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. M. Barrie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.