378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

"After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy."

"I like well to be in the company of explorers"

"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

"Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him."

"The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe."

"Forever is a very long time Peter"

"The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners."

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough."

"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip."