Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes 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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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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