J. M. Barrie Quotes

• I am glad you have asked me. I should like you to convey when you are acting it that the man you portray has a brother in Shropshire who drinks port.

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• What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be ‘sorry’ and admiration of each other ’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

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• I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball and don’t like the look of it, I can run after it and bring it back.

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• One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.

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• Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself ; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It’s our only joke. Every woman knows that.

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

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• My lady, there are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

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• Charm…it’s a sort of a bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.

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• Every time a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies’ there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

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

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• After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

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

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• Life is a long lesson in humility.

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• Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means for getting.

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

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• The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.

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• In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

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• You’ve forgotten the grandest moral attribute of a Scotsman, Maggie, that he’ll do nothing which might damage his career.

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• A young Scotsman of your ability let loose upon the world with 300 pounds, what could he not do? It’s almost appalling to think of; especially if he went among the English.

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

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Birth:	9th May, 1860
Death:	19th June, 1937
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Sir James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. He was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He studied at Glasgow Academy, Dumfries Academy, and Edinburgh University. He wrote several novels include: The Little White Bird, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Auld Licht Idyls, When a man's single, The inconsiderate waiter, Two of Them, and Peter and Wendy. He wrote several plays include: Quality Street, The Admirable Crichton, Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, What Every Woman Knows, Dear Brutus, Mary Rose, and The Boy David.

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