Top 280 James M. Barrie Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You know that place between sleep and awake, the place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.”

— James M. Barrie

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2. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

— James M. Barrie

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3. “All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”

— James M. Barrie

4. “Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.”

— James M. Barrie

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

— James M. Barrie

6. “Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.”

— James M. Barrie

7. “Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”

— James M. Barrie

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8. “Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.”

— James M. Barrie

9. “Death is but the next great adventure.”

— James M. Barrie

10. “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”

— James M. Barrie

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

— James M. Barrie

12. “Life is a long lesson in humility.”

— James M. Barrie

13. “So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”

— James M. Barrie

14. “Every time you say you don’t believe in fairies, a fairy dies.”

— James M. Barrie

15. “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”

— James M. Barrie

16. “He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.”

— James M. Barrie

17. “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.”

— James M. Barrie

18. “All you need is Faith, Trust and a little Pixie Dust.”

— James M. Barrie

19. “If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!”

— James M. Barrie

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

— James M. Barrie

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

— James M. Barrie

22. “Oh, the cleverness of me!”

— James M. Barrie

23. “All children, except one, grow up.”

— James M. Barrie

24. “You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there’s always someone who wants to destroy it.”

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25. “Forever is a very long time Peter.”

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26. “One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.”

— James M. Barrie

27. “Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.”

— James M. Barrie

28. “Just always be waiting for me.”

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29. “Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.”

— James M. Barrie

30. “Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.”

— James M. Barrie

31. “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

32. “I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back, and then away we go.”

— James M. Barrie

33. “Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.”

— James M. Barrie

34. “You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.”

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35. “Make your feet your friend.”

— James M. Barrie

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36. “You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”

— James M. Barrie

37. “You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,” Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.”

— James M. Barrie

38. “I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”

— James M. Barrie

39. “All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.”

— James M. Barrie

40. “The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.”

— James M. Barrie

41. “He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.”

— James M. Barrie

42. “Never is an awfully long time.”

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43. “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

44. “They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.”

— James M. Barrie

45. “Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”

— James M. Barrie

46. “What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?”

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47. “As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.”

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48. “Always be a littler kinder than necessary.”

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49. “Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.”

— James M. Barrie

50. “If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.”

— James M. Barrie