Quotes by J.M. Barrie

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

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

“You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? Thats where Ill always love you. Thats where Ill be waiting.”

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

“The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.”

“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”

“Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of...”

“When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, Who is Tinker Bell? O Peter, she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. There are s...”

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”

“She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.”

“The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.”

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”