J. M. Barrie Quotes

J. M. Barrie Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: Scottish
Born: May 9, 1860
Died: June 19, 1937

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J. M. Barrie

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
J. M. Barrie

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

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

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.
J. M. Barrie

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
J. M. Barrie

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

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.
J. M. Barrie