Quotes by Barrie, Sir James M.

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on desire
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"We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are."

Barrie, Sir James M. on failure
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"Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds."

Barrie, Sir James M. on ambition
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"Heaven for climate, Hell for company."

Barrie, Sir James M. on heaven
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"You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip."

Barrie, Sir James M. on idleness
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

Barrie, Sir James M. on joy
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"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary."

Barrie, Sir James M. on kindness
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"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

Barrie, Sir James M. on anger
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"If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have."

Barrie, Sir James M. on love
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"Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him."

Barrie, Sir James M. on men
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"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."

Barrie, Sir James M. on motives
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"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."

Barrie, Sir James M. on nationalities and nationalism
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"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."

Barrie, Sir James M. on past
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"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."

Barrie, Sir James M. on praise
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"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."

Barrie, Sir James M. on servants
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"Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them."

Barrie, Sir James M. on strength
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"Every time a child says, I don't believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

Barrie, Sir James M. on belief
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"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."

Barrie, Sir James M. on books - reading
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"The most useless are those who never change through the years."

Barrie, Sir James M. on change
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"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on understanding
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"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."

Barrie, Sir James M. on weddings
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".. 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."

Barrie, Sir James M. on women
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."

Barrie, Sir James M. on achievement
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