J. M. Barrie Quotes


"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip."
- J. M. Barrie
"That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."
- J. M. Barrie
(Related: Jealousy, Wishes)

"Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that."
- J. M. Barrie
(Related: Wife, Man, Smiles, Woman)

"Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
- J. M. Barrie
(Related: Time, Fairies)

"Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds."
- J. M. Barrie
(Related: Ambition)

"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
(Related: Woman)

"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall."
- J. M. Barrie
(Related: Equality, May, Will)