Peter Pan Quotes by J.M. Barrie(page 5 of 11) (2024)

“Do you want an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Don't you understand Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

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“If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon. This is the nearest you ever get to it on the mainland, just one heavenly moment; if there could be two moments you might see the surf and hear the mermaids singing.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

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“Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down in a way that would have made any woman respect him.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

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“When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Forget them Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“When you wake in the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind and on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Good form without knowing it is the best form of all.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“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.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Some disquieting confessions must be made in printing at last the play of Peter Pan; among them this, that I have no recollection of having written it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“The boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out; but at this time there were six of them, counting the twins as two. Let us pretend to lie here among the sugar-cane and watch them as they steal by in single file, each with his hand on his dagger.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy

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“This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was postiviely deafening.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“All remember about my mother," Nibs told them, "is that she often said to my father, 'Oh, how I wish I had a cheque-book of my own!' I don't know what a cheque-book is, but I should just love to give my mother one.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“His eyes were the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly. In manner, something of the great seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and I have been told he was a raconteur of repute. He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding...”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“The pirates, listening avidly at the mouths of the trees, heard the question put by every boy, and alas, they also heard Peter's answer.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy

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“Peter had seen many tragedies, but he had forgotten them all.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“None of them knew. Perhaps it was best not to know. Their ignorance gave them one more glad hour; and as it was to be their last hour on the island, let us rejoice that there were sixty glad minutes in it. They sang and danced in their night-gowns. Such a deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear. So uproariously gay was the dance, and how they buffeted each other on the bed and out of it! It was a pillow fight rather than a dance, and when it was finished, the pillows insisted on one bout more, like partners who know that they may never meet again. The stories they told, before it was time for Wendy's good-night story! Even Slightly tried to tell a story that night, but the beginning was so fearfully dull that it appalled not only the others but himself, and he said happily:”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan and Wendy

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“Whenever a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there's a little fairy somewhere that falls right down dead”
― J. M. Barrie, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan

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“Mrs. Darling stretched out her arms to him, but he repulsed her. “Keep back, lady, no one is going to catch me and make me a man.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“One cannot at least withhold a reluctant admiration for the wit that had conceived so bold a scheme, and the fell genius with which it was carried out.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

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“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

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“There were odd stories about him; as that when children died he went part of the way with them, so that they should not be frightened. She”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter and Wendy

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“Peter measures you for your tree as carefully as for a suit of clothes: the only difference being that the clothes are made to fit you, while you have to be made to fit the tree.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Bringing up the rear, the place of greatest danger, comes Tiger Lily, proudly erect, a princess in her own right. She is the most beautiful of dusky Dianas and the belle of the Piccaninnies, coquettish, cold, and amorous by turns; there is not a brave who would not have the wayward thing to wife, but she staves off the altar with a hatchet.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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“Smee", he said huskily, "that crocodile would have had me before this, but by a lucky chance it swallowed a clock that goes tick tick inside it, and so before it can reach me I can hear the tick and bolt." He laughed, but in a hollow way. "Some day", Smee said, "the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

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