J M Barrie Peter Pan Quotes

#1. I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

Tessa Jowell

#2. David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

J.M. Barrie

#3. You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
Overhead Tinker Bell shouted "Silly ass!" and darted into hiding.

J.M. Barrie

#4. It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

J.M. Barrie

#5. See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

J.M. Barrie

#6. He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

J.M. Barrie

#7. 'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic.

Michael Dirda

#8. The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

J.M. Barrie

#9. All over the walls of my room are pictures of Peter Pan. I've read everything that Barrie wrote. I totally identify with Peter Pan, the lost boy from Never Neverland.

Michael Jackson

#10. 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

#11. Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Michael Dirda

#12. The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

J.M. Barrie

#13. Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence.
He frowned.
"I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

J.M. Barrie

#14. The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

J.M. Barrie