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James M. Barrie [1860-1937] British

Rank: 101
Playwright, Novelist

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays.

Love, Dreams, Equality, God, Jealousy, Life, Strength, Time, Wedding, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.		101
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.	Wisdom	102
Life is a long lesson in humility.	Life	103
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.	Love	104
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.	God	105
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!		106
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.		107
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.	Equality	108
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.		109
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.		110
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.		111
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?		112
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.		113
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.		114
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.	Jealousy, Wedding	115
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.	Time	116
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.	Dreams	117
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.		118
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.	Love	119
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.		120
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.		121
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.	Strength	122
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.		123
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.		124
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.		125
To die will be an awfully big adventure.		126
Always be a little kinder than necessary.		201
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.		202
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.		203
We are all of us failures - at least, the best of us are.		204
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.		205
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.		206
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.		207
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.		208
The most useless are those who never change through the years.		209

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