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Quotes from The Little Minister — J. M. Barrie

1860–1937 Scotland

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8 quotes

To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.

The Little Minister (1891)

Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years.

The Little Minister (1891)

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)

Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.

The Little Minister (1891)

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

The Little Minister (1891)

If the young leddy was so careless o' insulting other folks' ancestors, it proves she has nane o' her ain; for them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful no to break the china plates of others.

The Little Minister (1891)

Attribution

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