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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