James M. Barrie Quotations | Page 2

Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

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

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.

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

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