378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

I like well to be in the company of explorers.

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can’t.

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.

You won’t forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling’s kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.

I have seen him climbing a tree while she stood beneath him in unutterable anguish; she had to let him climb, for boys must be brave, but I am sure that, as she watched him, she fell from every branch.

Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the other sets sail. They exchange a bright “All’s well” and pass on.

Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.

I remember kisses,” said Slightly. “Let me see. Aye, that is a kiss. A powerful thing.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man’s rib; she was made from his funny bone.