James M. Barrie Men Quotations

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

I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.

For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "So, Pan," said Hook at last, "this is all your doing." "Ay, James Hook," came the stern answer, "it is all my doing." "Proud and insolent youth," said Hook, "prepare to meet thy doom." "Dark and sinister man,“For long the two enemies looked at one another, Hook shuddering slightly, and Peter with the strange smile upon his face. "Dark and sinister man," Peter answered, "have at thee.

Every man who is high up likes to think 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.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

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

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

Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

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

All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.