I loved even her naughtinesses, as when she stamped her foot at me, which she could not do without also gnashing her teeth, like a child trying to look fearsome. How pretty was that gnashing of her teeth! 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.

— James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie Quotes

You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter Pan’s adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens.

— James M. Barrie

Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage.

— James M. Barrie

The loveliest tinkle as of golden bells answered him. It is the fairy language.

— James M. Barrie

The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals.

— James M. Barrie

There’s a pirate asleep in the pampas just beneath us,′ Peter told him. ‘If you like, we’ll go down and kill him.

— James M. Barrie

I cut off a bit of him.′ ‘You!’ ‘Yes, me,’ said Peter sharply. ‘I wasn’t meaning to be disrespectful.’ ‘Oh, all right’ ‘But, I say, what bit?’ ‘His right hand.’ ‘Then he can’t fight now?

— James M. Barrie

Avere fede vuol dire avere le ali.

— James M. Barrie

You see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests in the top of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

— James M. Barrie

Better for Hook,′ he cried, ‘if he had had less ambition.’ It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person. ‘No.

— James M. Barrie

Do you like a mother’s love, Nibs?′ ‘I do just,’ said Nibs, hitting back.

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We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.

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Odds bobs, hammer and tongs I’m burning.

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I forget them after I kill them,′ he replied carelessly. When.

— James M. Barrie

He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, ‘I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.

— James M. Barrie

Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly.

— James M. Barrie

I fear I am not truly brave myself, for though when under fire, so far as I can recollect, I behaved as others, morally I seem to be deficient.

— James M. Barrie

I lumini sono gli occhi che una mamma si lascia dietro per sorvegliare i propri piccoli.

— James M. Barrie

Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat. They.

— James M. Barrie

It can be only the memory of some woman,” said she, “that makes you so kind to me.

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A more villainous-looking lot never hung in a row on Execution dock.

— James M. Barrie
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