Quotes by James Matthew Barrie
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its 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.
Barrie, James Matthew
Every time a child says, "I don't believe in fairies," there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Barrie, James Matthew
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Barrie, James Matthew
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.
Barrie, James Matthew
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
Barrie, James Matthew
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Barrie, James Matthew
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Barrie, James Matthew