378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.

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

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

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.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again. Never is an awfully long time.

Never is an awfully long time.

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