378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

"Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility."

"Some of my plays peter out and some pan out."

"...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England."

"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."

"Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children."

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

"The most useless are those who never change through the years."

"What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?"

"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."

"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."