378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

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.