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
love beautiful wall
You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.
beautiful mother eye
For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
beautiful stars forever
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.
beautiful running children
She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.
beautiful stars long-ago
Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.
beautiful heart curves
She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
believe child fairy falls somewhere time
Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
loves unhappy
Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
believe fairies fairy falls says somewhere time
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
best
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
lets likes man
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
work
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
revenge opponents conflict
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
death dying best-place
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.