There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. – James Barrie
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 dont find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. – James Barrie
We are all failures — at least, all the best of us are. – James Barrie
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. – James Barrie
Heaven for climate, Hell for company. – James Barrie
Im youth, Im joy, Im a little bird that has broken out of the egg. – James Barrie
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl. – James Barrie
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? – James Barrie
Mens second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him. – James Barrie
.. its a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you dont need to have anything else; and if you dont have it, it doesnt much matter what else you have. – James Barrie
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. – James Barrie
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble. – James Barrie
Every time a child says, I dont believe in fairies, there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. – James Barrie
Ambition — it is the last infirmity of noble minds. – James Barrie
