Famous James Barrie Quotations

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"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
by James Barrie
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
by James M. Barrie
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
by James Barrie
"Always be a little kinder than necessary."
by James M. Barrie
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
by James Barrie
"God gave us memory that we might have roses in December."
by James M. Barrie
"God gave us memories, that we might have June roses in the December of our lives."
by James M. Barrie
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
by James M. Barrie
"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing."
by James Barrie
"Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow."
by James Barrie
"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
by James M. Barrie
"One's religion is whatever one is most interested in."
by James Barrie
"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."
by James Barrie
"She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered."
by James Matthew Barrie
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
by James Matthew Barrie
"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."
by James Barrie
"The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do."
by James M. Barrie
"We are all failures--at least, the best of us are."
by James Barrie
"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."
by James Barrie
"You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by."
by James Barrie
"Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds."
by James Barrie
"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."
by James Barrie
"We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are."
by James Barrie
"When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl."
by James Barrie
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
by James Barrie
"Heaven for climate, Hell for company."
by James Barrie
"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
by James Barrie
"Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him."
by James Barrie
"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
by James Barrie
"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."
by James Barrie
"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."
by James Barrie
"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."
by James Barrie


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