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.
James M. Barrie

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
James M. Barrie

Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie

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

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

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.
James M. Barrie

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

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.
James M. Barrie

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


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

I am not young enough to know everything.
James M. Barrie

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.
James M. Barrie

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

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

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie

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