Quotes By James M. Barrie

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

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

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

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

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

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.

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

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

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.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.