378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

"He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep."

"The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them."

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

"astonishing splashes of colour"

"Death is but the next great adventure."

"What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will."

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it."

"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"

"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

"You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas."