171 Quotes by J.M. Barrie

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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.

It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but always if they wanted to do anything special they said this was Saturday night, and then they did it.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

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

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.

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.