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Quotes from Peter Pan — J. M. Barrie

1860–1937 Scotland

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16 quotes

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

Peter Pan (1904)

Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead.

Peter Pan (1904)

I just want always to be a little boy and have fun.

Peter Pan (1904)

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.

Peter Pan (1904)

Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!

Peter Pan (1904)

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)

Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

Peter Pan (1904)

If he could get the hang of the thing his cry might become To live would be an awfully big adventure! but he can never quite the hang of it...

Peter Pan (1904)

I'll teach you to jump on the wind's back and then away we go.

Peter Pan (1904)

Split my infinitives, but 'tis my hour of triumph!

Peter Pan (1904)

Dark and sinister man, have at thee.

Peter Pan (1904)

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

Peter Pan (1904)

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.

Peter Pan (1904)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: J. M. Barrie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.