378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

Would you like an adventure now,” he said casually to John, “or would you like to have your tea first?

I’ll hold you in my heart, until I can hold you in my arms.

I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.

Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs. Darling’s guesses.

Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You’re just a boy.

You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others.

There never was a simpler, happier family until the coming of Peter Pan.

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.