The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
James M. Barrie
British
Playwright
About the author
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Motives
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Work
#Nothing
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Life
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Strength
#Being
#Passion
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Temper
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Wishes
#Jealousy
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Life
#Humility
There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#World
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Life
#Man
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Will
#Adventure
We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#World
#Loss
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,
British
Playwright
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Years
#Change
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Fairies
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Love
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Man
#Woman
Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Ambition
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Quick
#Fairies
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,
British
Playwright
#Life
#Sacrifice
#Will
#Dreams
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Love
#Praise
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,
British
Playwright
#Wife
#Man
#Smiles
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.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Past
#Open
#Force
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#First
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#God
#Memory
#December
#Roses
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Will
#May
#Equality
I am not young enough to know everything.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
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,
British
Playwright
#Life
#Opportunity
#Shakespeare
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Youth
#Joy
It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie,
British
Playwright
#Work