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
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
Someone said that God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: God
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
Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Love
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
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: The Past, Memory, Memories
Life is a long lesson in humility.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Life, Character, Living, Humility
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Heaven
That is ever the way. ‘Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Wishes, Weddings, Marriage
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Adventure, Death, Dying
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don’t find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: The Past, Past
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
All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust.
—J. M. Barrie
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Understanding
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Strength
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Dying, Death
We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Failure
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.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Beginnings, Babies
It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Happiness
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
Men’s second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Men
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Dying, Death, Adventure
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
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Kindness, Giving, Joy, Encouragement, Service
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: Living, Life
Courage is the lovely virtue – the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Courage
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: Happiness
I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
—J. M. Barrie
Topics: One liners, Youth
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: Achievement, Success & Failure
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- Walter Scott Scottish Novelist
- George MacDonald Scottish Poet, Novelist
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Scottish Novelist
- Tobias Smollett Scottish Poet
- Arthur Conan Doyle Scottish Writer
- Thomas Carlyle Scottish Historian, Essayist
- Hugh Blair Scottish Minister, Scholar
- Samuel Rutherford Scottish Presbyterian Theologian
- Robert W. Service Scottish Poet
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