378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.

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.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

For to have faith, is to have wings" Peter Pan

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.