Quotes by J.M. Barrie

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I don't feel as strong today as I do on other days, but I know Your strength will prevail in my weakness. The enemy is always trying to fill me with fear and doubt and make me abandon this mission. Help me ignore the lies and have courage to go on ea...

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Don't forget to speak scornfully of the Victorian Age; there will be time for meekness when you try to better it. Very soon you will be Victorian or that sort of thing yourselves; next session probably, when the freshman come up.

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I'm not young enough to know everything.

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POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.

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The very smell of tobacco is abominable, for one cannot get it out of the curtains, and there is little pleasure in existence unless the curtains are all right.

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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

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When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never on...

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It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

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Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

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Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

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It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

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David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

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The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

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The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

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Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he wa...

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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she mus...

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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

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Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily. "I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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