110+ James M. Barrie Quotes On Education, James M Barrie And Magical

James M. Barrie was a British playwright and novelist best known for creating the character Peter Pan. He wrote several successful plays, including Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, and Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Barrie was a popular figure in London's literary scene in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Following is our collection on famous quotes by James M. Barrie on education, life, leadership.

Top 10 James M. Barrie Quotes

1. All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
2. Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
3. All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
4. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
5. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
6. Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.
7. Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.
8. Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
9. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
10. Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

James M. Barrie Image Quotes

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. — James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie Short Quotes

• I am not young enough to know everything.
• If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
• The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
• God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
• Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
• You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.
• Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.
• You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
• The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
• Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

James M. Barrie Quotes About Life

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land! — James M. Barrie

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. — James M. Barrie

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened. — James M. Barrie

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life. — James M. Barrie

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. — James M. Barrie

Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter. — James M. Barrie

Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs. — James M. Barrie

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. — James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie Quotes About Love

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. — James M. Barrie

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him. — James M. Barrie

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. — James M. Barrie

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air. — James M. Barrie

Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children. — James M. Barrie

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

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls. — James M. Barrie

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

Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege. — James M. Barrie

Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time. — James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie Quotes About Loves

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go. — James M. Barrie

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be. — James M. Barrie

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

I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be? — James M. Barrie

If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. — James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie Quotes About Fairies

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. — James M. Barrie

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. — James M. Barrie

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands! — James M. Barrie

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. — James M. Barrie

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'. — James M. Barrie

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. — James M. Barrie

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

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them — James M. Barrie

I do believe in fairies, I do, I do. — James M. Barrie

She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies. — James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie Famous Quotes And Sayings

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. — James M. Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. — James M. Barrie

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it. — James M. Barrie

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. — James M. Barrie

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. — James M. Barrie

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. — James M. Barrie

I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us. — James M. Barrie

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me! — James M. Barrie

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful. — James M. Barrie

He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself. — James M. Barrie

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in. — James M. Barrie

In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out. — James M. Barrie

Fame is rot; daughters are the thing. — James M. Barrie

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? — James M. Barrie

Oh, the cleverness of me! — James M. Barrie

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded. — James M. Barrie

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

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none. — James M. Barrie

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly. — James M. Barrie

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. — James M. Barrie

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older. — James M. Barrie

Make your feet your friend. — James M. Barrie

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless. — James M. Barrie

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

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education. — James M. Barrie

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

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams — James M. Barrie

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

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching. — James M. Barrie

I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects. — James M. Barrie

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back — James M. Barrie

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads. — James M. Barrie

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds? — James M. Barrie

I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go. — James M. Barrie

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. — James M. Barrie

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

Always be a little kinder than necessary. — James M. Barrie

I am the best there ever was! — James M. Barrie

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. — James M. Barrie

Anything is possible if you wish hard enough. — James M. Barrie

Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him. — James M. Barrie

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles. — James M. Barrie

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent. — James M. Barrie

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel. — James M. Barrie

She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful. — James M. Barrie

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys. — James M. Barrie

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages. — James M. Barrie

If he thought at all, but I don't believe he ever thought, it was that he and his shadow, when brought near each other, would join like drops of water. — James M. Barrie

I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don’t want to be a man. — James M. Barrie

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers. — James M. Barrie

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

If I were younger, I'd know more. — James M. Barrie

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. — James M. Barrie

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite. — James M. Barrie

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't. — James M. Barrie

i know i'm not clever but i'm always right. — James M. Barrie

All children, except one, grow up. — James M. Barrie

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him. — James M. Barrie

Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin? — James M. Barrie

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it. — James M. Barrie

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies. — James M. Barrie

She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered. — James M. Barrie

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer? — James M. Barrie

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow — James M. Barrie

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe. — James M. Barrie

Just always be waiting for me. — James M. Barrie

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones. — James M. Barrie

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

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us? — James M. Barrie

Life Lessons by James M. Barrie

1. James M. Barrie's work teaches us to never give up on our dreams and to always strive to make them a reality.
2. His stories often emphasize the importance of friendship, loyalty, and the power of imagination.
3. Through his work, Barrie encourages us to look for the joy and hope in life, even in the darkest of times.