James M. Barrie Quotes

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie

Sunshine, Cannot, Others

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

Life, Long, 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.
James M. Barrie

Life, Dreams, True

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie

God, Might, Memory

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie

Love, Unhappy, Rainbow

A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
James M. Barrie

Woman, Her, Loves

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

Love, Humble, Praise

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

Life, Try, Shall

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie

Time, Against, Hours

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
James M. Barrie

Hands, Quick, Fairies

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 of his life.
James M. Barrie

Life, Whether, Seems

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
James M. Barrie

Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie

Ambition, Last, Minds

I am not young enough to know everything.
James M. Barrie

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie

Hold, Temper, Weapon

The most useless are those who never change through the years.
James M. Barrie

Change, Through, Useless

Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie

Necessary, Kinder

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.
James M. Barrie

Wife, Done, High

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie

Down, Child, Dead

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

Joy, Broken, Youth

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

Strength, Passion, Child

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

Understand, Until, Loss

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

Equality, May, Equal

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie

Work, Real, Else

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M. Barrie

Motives, Opponent, Ascribe

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: May 9, 1860

Died: June 19, 1937

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