1860-1937, British Playwright
.. 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.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Women]
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.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Past]
Ambition — it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Ambition]
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Desire]
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Achievement]
Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Belief]
Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Heaven]
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Servants]
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Youth]
If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Love]
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Life and Living]
Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Men]
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Motives]
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Kindness]
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Strength]
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Anger]
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Weddings]
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Death and Dying]
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Life and Living]
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
Sir James M. Barrie – [Change]