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
times-have-changed bye sitting
Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."
past may helping
Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
women sadness badness
Oh the gladness of their gladness when they're glad, And the sadness of their sadness when they're sad; But the gladness of their gladness, and the sadness of their sadness, Are as nothing to their badness when they're bad
wife cricket loving-wife
A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.
wish enough hard
Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
explanation loathe
I do loathe explanations.
wise mother children
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
titles neverland leather
All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.
blessing wings perfect
Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
fire dinner fling
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
differences scotch sometimes
I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
writing biographies may
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
sex jewels fats
Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?
caring break china
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others