James m. barrie

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

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.

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.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

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.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.