J. M. Barrie Quotes

• The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.

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

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• It’s grand, and ye canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

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

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• I’ve sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

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• Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

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• Fame is rot; daughters are the thing.

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• Oh the gladness of their gladness when they’re glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they’re sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they’re bad.

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• When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be.

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• Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.

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• What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

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• Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others.

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• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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• What is genius? – It is the power to be a boy again at will.

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• Has it ever struck you that the trouts bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.

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• The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high.

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• You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man’s rib; she was really made from his funny bone.

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• If it’s heaven for climate, it’s hell for company.

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

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

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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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