James M. Barrie Time Quotations

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

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

Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Never is an awfully long time.

Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

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.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.