378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

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

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures...

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.