James Matthew Barrie Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

16 Famous Quotes by James Matthew Barrie
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“It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?”
Books Quotes
“I'm not young enough to know everything”
Knowledge Quotes
“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”
Mankind Quotes
“A moment lasts all of a second, but the memory lives on forever.”
Memory Quotes
“We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it”
Needs Quotes
“Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.”
Temper Quotes
“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
Youth Quotes
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.”
Children Quotes
“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
Sacrifice Quotes
“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.”
Achievement Quotes
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
Baby Quotes
“... 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.”
Beauty Quotes
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.”
Life Quotes
“Life is a long lesson in humility.”
Life Quotes
“You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.”
Men and women Quotes
“Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes