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J. M. Barrie
Scottish
Novelist
About the author
We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
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.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
#Wishes
#Jealousy
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. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
#Wife
#Man
#Woman
#Smiles
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
#Time
#Fairies
Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
#Ambition
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.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
#Woman
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
J. M. Barrie,
Scottish
Novelist
#Will
#May
#Equality