378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.

Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

Thus did the terrified three learn the difference between an island of make-believe and the same island come true.

They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.

There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.