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
science men doe
The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
children heaven littles
The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.
matter needs charm
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. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
kinder
Always be kinder than necessary.
world want neverland
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
fame comfortable
You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
wells company explorers
I like well to be in the company of explorers
inspirational real men
The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.
inspirational dream sacrifice
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
giving novelists fiction
The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
death adventure organized-mind
Death is but the next great adventure.
boys genius
What is genius? It is the power to be a boy again at will.
men sea names
You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
air mushrooms people
They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates.