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
eye fire darkness
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
fire dinner fling
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
moving boys fire
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
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.
gave god memories might roses
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
best failures
We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.
believe everytime fairy falls says
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.