171 Quotes by J.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.

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience and pimples.

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!

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

God gave us memories so that we might enjoy roses in December.

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.

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.

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

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't have to need anything else;and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.