James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas 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. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
long long-time
Never is an awfully long time.
boys peter wendy
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
cleverness
Oh, the cleverness of me!
neverland i-am-the-best
I am the best there ever was!
life happiness dream
So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
wish splendid peter
What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.
mother children growing-up
All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
night long special
They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
years next-year cry
Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.
boys childhood wake-up
Young boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.
firsts lovers mets
There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
pirate weapons lovable
One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.
baby laughing nests
When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
may quixotic magnificent
It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.