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Inspirational Quotes by J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

Inspirational Quotations by J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)

J. M. Barrie (1860–1937,) properly Sir James Matthew Barrie, was a Scottish novelist and dramatist. He is most famous as the creator of Peter Pan, a mischievous boy who does not want to grow up.

Born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Barrie graduated from Edinburgh University in 1882, then settled in London and became a regular contributor to the St James’s Gazette and British Weekly. He wrote a series of autobiographical prose works, including The Little Minister (1891; dramatized 1897.) From 1890, he wrote for the theatre and established his reputation with works like Walker London (1892) and The Admirable Crichton (1902.)

Based on the imaginative games Barrie played with the boisterous Llewellyn-Davies boys, whom he met in Kensington Gardens, Barrie created his phenomenally successful children’s story Peter Pan (1904,) which remains a favorite Christmas pantomime. He continued his excursions into a fairyland in later plays such as Dear Brutus (1917) and Mary Rose (1920.)

From 1930, Barrie was the chancellor of Edinburgh University. He bequeathed all the rights to Peter Pan to London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. Accordingly, the hospital has received royalties every time a production of the play is put on.

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The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Death, Dying

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust.
—J. M. Barrie

I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Youth, One liners

We are all failures—at least, the best of us are.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Failure

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Memories, The Past, Memory

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Kindness

To die will be an awfully big adventure.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Dying, Adventure, Death

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Understanding

We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Failure

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Unhappiness

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. it is the commonest prayer in all languages.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Prayer

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.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Life and Living, Humor, Goal, Goals, Life

Failure is the path of least resistance.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Failure

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.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Love

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Nationalism, Nationality, Nation, Nationalities

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.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Life, Living

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Strength

Every time a child says, “I don’t believe in fairies,” there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Belief

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Heaven

The most useless are those who never change through the years.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Change

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.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Success & Failure, Achievement

Charm: It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Charm

Always be a little kinder than necessary.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Compassion, Service, Kindness

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Love

God gave us memories that we may have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man’s rib; she was really made from his funny bone.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Women

You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead”.
—J. M. Barrie

Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience… and pimples.
—J. M. Barrie

For several days after my first book was published I carried it about in my pocket, and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Books

Oh the gladness of their gladness when they’re glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they’re sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they’re bad
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Sadness

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