J.M. Barrie

[ Explaining how to fly :] You just think lovely wonderful thoughts and they lift you up in the air.

[ Response to being asked, “Where do you live?” :] Second to the right and then straight on till morning.

Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy.

The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.

All children, except one, grow up.

Hogmanay, like all festivals, being but a bank from which we can only draw what we put in.

Life…is like a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink, the sooner we reach the dregs.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe! If you believe, clap your hands!

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

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.

Every time a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies’ there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.