Top 280 James M. Barrie Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “The truth is that there was a something about Peter which goaded the pirate captain to frenzy. It was not his courage, it was not his engaging appearance, it was not –. There is no beating about the bush, for we know quite well what it was, and have got to tell. It was Peter’s cockiness. This.”

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252. “I lumini sono gli occhi che una mamma si lascia dietro per sorvegliare i propri piccoli.”

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253. “Or we could tell of that cake the pirates cooked so that the boys might eat it and perish; and how they placed it in one cunning spot after another; but always Wendy snatched it from the hands of her children, so that in time it lost its succulence, and became as hard as a stone, and was used as a missile, and Hook fell over it in the dark.”

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254. “I forget them after I kill them,′ he replied carelessly. When.”

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255. “In his absence things are usually quiet on the island. The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other. But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are all under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life. On.”

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256. “The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals.”

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257. “There’s a pirate asleep in the pampas just beneath us,′ Peter told him. ‘If you like, we’ll go down and kill him.”

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258. “You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter Pan’s adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens.”

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259. “Don’t cry, pretty human, don’t cry,” and then she turned round and saw a beautiful little naked boy regarding her wistfully. She knew at once that he must be Peter Pan.”

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260. “I forget them after I kill them.”

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261. “Then tell her,′ Wendy begged, ‘to put out her light.’ ‘She can’t put it out. That is about the only thing fairies can’t do. It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as the stars.’ ‘Then.”

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262. “To believe is to have wings.”

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263. “You see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests in the top of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.”

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264. “He thought Mrs. Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, ‘I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.”

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265. “The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out; but at this time there were six of them, counting the twins as two.”

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266. “Don’t you understand? You mean more to me that anything in this entire world.”

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267. “Mrs. Darling’s kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny.”

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268. “In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and.”

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269. “And still Wendy hugged Nana. ‘That’s right,’ he shouted. ‘Coddle her! Nobody coddles me. Oh dear no! I am only the breadwinner, why should I be coddled, why, why, why!”

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270. “Second to the right,′ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.’ ‘What.”

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271. “Even by day they hung about, smoking the pipe of peace, and looking almost as if they wanted tit-bits to eat. They.”

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272. “She has been putting qualities into David, altering him, turning him forever on a lathe since the day she first knew him, and indeed long before, and all so deftly that he is still called a child of nature.”

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273. “So fond of babes was this little mother that she had always room near her for one more.”

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274. “I loved even her naughtinesses, as when she stamped her foot at me, which she could not do without also gnashing her teeth, like a child trying to look fearsome. How pretty was that gnashing of her teeth! All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why she could give herself to me.”

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275. “He was accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your fist, which darted about the room like a living thing;.”

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276. “It can be only the memory of some woman,” said she, “that makes you so kind to me.”

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277. “She was the thing we call romance, which lives in the little hut beyond the blue haze of the pine-woods. No.”

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278. “Of all delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact; not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed.”

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279. “They heard Peter crow. ‘Peter!’ they cried, for it was always thus that he signalled his return. ‘Hide.”

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280. “It’s all very well to say you are waiting; so am I waiting.′ ‘Father’s a cowardy custard.’ ‘So are you a cowardy custard.’ ‘I’m not frightened.’ ‘Neither am I frightened.’ ‘Well, then, take it.’ ‘Well, then, you take it.”

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281. “Better for Hook,′ he cried, ‘if he had had less ambition.’ It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person. ‘No.”

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282. “To sit still seemed to him such a comic thing to do.”

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283. “She was all on a noble scale, her attributes were so generous, her manner unconquerably gracious, her movements indolently active, her face so candid that you must swear her every thought lived always in the open.”

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284. “This is a difficult question, because it is quite impossible to say how time does wear on in the Neverland, where it is calculated by moons and suns, and there are ever so many more of them than on the mainland.”

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285. “Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly.”

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286. “He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanour, showed him one of a different caste from his crew. A man of indomitable courage, it was said of him that the only thing he shied at was the sight of his own blood, which was thick and of an unusual colour.”

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287. “Do you like a mother’s love, Nibs?′ ‘I do just,’ said Nibs, hitting back.”

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288. “They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll. They have therefore become very sure-footed.”

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289. “You can be good in the Broad Walk all the time, but not at the Round Pond, and the reason is that you forget, and, when you remember, you are so wet that you may as well be wetter.”

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290. “I fear I am not truly brave myself, for though when under fire, so far as I can recollect, I behaved as others, morally I seem to be deficient.”

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291. “Wall-flower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit, and Solomon’s Seals juice is for bruises. They bruise very easily.”

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292. “We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.”

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293. “It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to be done with her. First, however, to find out their abode, which was probably within easy distance of the shop. I even conceived them lured into taking their house by the advertisement, “Conveniently situation for the Pork Emporium.”

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294. “I cut off a bit of him.′ ‘You!’ ‘Yes, me,’ said Peter sharply. ‘I wasn’t meaning to be disrespectful.’ ‘Oh, all right’ ‘But, I say, what bit?’ ‘His right hand.’ ‘Then he can’t fight now?”

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295. “She came to me slowly; no incomprehensible thing to me now, but transparent as a pool, and so restful to look upon that she was a bath to the eyes, like banks of moss. Because.”

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296. “Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.”

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