378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

Come with me where dreams are born and time is never planned.

Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal.

Why, what is the matter, father dear?′ ‘Matter!’ he yelled; he really yelled. ‘This tie, it will not tie.

Smee”, he said huskily, “that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock that goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I can hear the tick and bolt.” He laughed, but in a hollow way. “Some day”, Smee said, “the clock will run down, and then he’ll get you.

All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why she could give herself to me. It may be that I wondered over-much. Perhaps that was why I lost her.

He was so much the humblest one that Wendy was especially gentle with him.

We were having another look among the bushes for David’s lost worsted ball, and instead of the ball we found a lovely nest made of the worsted, and containing four eggs, with scratches on them very like David’s handwriting, so we think they must have been the mother’s love-letters to the little ones inside.

One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.