378 Quotes by James M. Barrie

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents...

We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.