J. M. Barrie Quotes

Most popular J. M. Barrie Quotes

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. - J. M. Barrie quote.
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.
— J. M. Barrie

laughter babies

Life is a long lesson in humility. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
— J. M. Barrie The Little Minister

life humility

To die will be an awfully big adventure. - J. M. Barrie quote.
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— J. M. Barrie Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up

death

Always be a little kinder than necessary. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
— J. M. Barrie

kindness

I am not young enough to know everything. - J. M. Barrie quote.
I am not young enough to know everything.
— J. M. Barrie

youth

Temper is a weapon which we hold by the blade. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Temper is a weapon which we hold by the blade.
— J. M. Barrie Arthur E. Giles

temper

Courage is the thing.  All goes if courage goes. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Courage is the thing.  All goes if courage goes.
— J. M. Barrie

courage

Ambition—it is the last infirmity of noble minds. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Ambition—it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
— J. M. Barrie The Twelve-Pound Look

ambition

We are all failures, at least all the best of us. - J. M. Barrie quote.
We are all failures, at least all the best of us.
— J. M. Barrie Courage

failure

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
— J. M. Barrie

kindness

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
— J. M. Barrie

motives

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. - J. M. Barrie quote.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
— J. M. Barrie

memory

Poets are men who despise money except what they need for today. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Poets are men who despise money except what they need for today.
— J. M. Barrie
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - J. M. Barrie quote.
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
— J. M. Barrie

memory

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. - J. M. Barrie quote.
One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.
— J. M. Barrie The Twelve-Pound Look

religion

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— J. M. Barrie A Window in Thrums

service cheer

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— J. M. Barrie

happiness

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. - J. M. Barrie quote.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
— J. M. Barrie Margaret Ogilvy

loss

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
— J. M. Barrie

love

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. - J. M. Barrie quote.
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer.
— J. M. Barrie Peter Pan

the past

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. - J. M. Barrie quote.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
— J. M. Barrie
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? - J. M. Barrie quote.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
— J. M. Barrie
If you have charm, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have. - J. M. Barrie quote.
If you have charm, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have.
— J. M. Barrie
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
— J. M. Barrie
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. - J. M. Barrie quote.
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.
— J. M. Barrie

time

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 quote.
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 What Every Woman Knows

charm

Facts were never pleasing to him.  He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief.  He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads. - J. M. Barrie quote.
Facts were never pleasing to him.  He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief.  He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
— J. M. Barrie The Greenwood Hat: A Memoir of James Anon, 1885–1887

facts

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 quote.
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

life

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is—Success.
— J. M. Barrie The Twelve-Pound Look

success

Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; even love unreturned has its rainbow.
— J. M. Barrie
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 The Little Minister

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