J. M. Barrie Short Quotes

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The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.

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ERNEST..I'm not young enough to know everything.

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Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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The man is not wholly evil: he has a Thesaurus in his cabin.
Of Captain Hook

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PHOEBE: Algebra! It — it is not a very ladylike study Isabella.

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I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

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It's grand, and you canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

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

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

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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

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

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

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

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

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I don't want to go to school and learn solemn things. I don't want to be a man.

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There is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.

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

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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

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

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

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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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Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

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

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Hogmanay, like all festivals, being but a bank from which we can only draw what we put in.

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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

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