James M. Barrie Quotes

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• To die will be an awfully big adventure.
• Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.…
• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
• Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
• That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
• Life is a long lesson in humility.
• Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
• God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
• A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
• Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
• Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
• Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
• We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
• I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity…
• The most useless are those who never change through the years.
• I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
• Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

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