J. M. Barrie quotes
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937): Scottish writer and playwright. The library holds 38 quotes by J. M. Barrie. The 38 below are the most quoted; search the library in the maker for the rest.
Often about: life, love, youth, change, faith, grief
The best-known J. M. Barrie quotes
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There’s things it’s best to put off kenning as long as we can.
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We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company.
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The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather.
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Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy; even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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There’s no folk sic idiots as them that looks like geniuses.
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, can not keep it from themselves.
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Life is a wrestle with the devil, and only the frivolous think to throw him without taking off their coats.
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
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Man’s second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.
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Not to attempt a gallant deed for which one has the impulse may be braver than the doing of it.
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When men add a new wing to their house they do not call the action virtue, but if they give to a fellow-creature for their own gratification, they demand of God a good mark for it.
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Nothing can overtake an untruth if it has a minute’s start.
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Strength, instead of being the lusty child of passions, grows by grappling with and throwing them.
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If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart.
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Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it’s no him you hurt, but his ancestors.
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We are children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are grey and put all our burden on the Lord.
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To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover’s privilege.
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Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
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The young talk generously of relieving the old of their burdens, but the anxious heart is to the old when they see a load on the back of the young.
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We seldom give our love to what is worthiest in its object.
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I would condone many things in one-and-twenty now, that I dealt hardly with at middle age. God Himself, I think, is very willing to give one-and-twenty a second chance.
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Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out.
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The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high.
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“Shalls” and “wills.” Never trust a Scotch man or woman who does not come to grief among them.
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The world does not progress so quickly as a man grows old.
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The useless men are those who never change with the years.
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He’s looking for the blade o’ corn in the stack o’ chaff.
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Those who only run after little things will not go far.
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Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God.
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No heart opens to sympathy without letting in delicacy.
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You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.
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Temper—a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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Steps vary as much as the human face.
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To doubt is to dip love in the mire.
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The wind that has its nest in trees.
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Stronger by being united.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.