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Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

James M. Barrie

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!

James M. Barrie

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.

James M. Barrie

We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.

James 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.

James M. Barrie

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

James M. Barrie

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

James M. Barrie

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

James M. Barrie

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

James M. Barrie

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.

James M. Barrie

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

James M. Barrie

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

James M. Barrie

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

James M. Barrie

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.

James M. Barrie

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

James M. Barrie

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James M. Barrie

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

James M. Barrie

Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.

James M. Barrie

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

James M. Barrie

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

James 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.

James M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

James M. Barrie

Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie

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.

James M. Barrie

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James M. Barrie

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

James M. Barrie

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

James M. Barrie

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

James M. Barrie