378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

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

One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.

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.

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

Mrs. Darling: There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams. Michael: Where did he put them? Mrs. Darling: He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls...

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?