James M. Barrie Quotes

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James M. Barrie

Profession : Playwright

Birth : May 9, 1860

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

James M. Barrie

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

James M. Barrie

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

James 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.

James M. Barrie

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

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

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.

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

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

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

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

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