Sir James Matthew Barrie

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all by himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

It has been said of the unseen army of the dead, on their everlasting march, that when they are passing a rural cricket ground, the Englishmen fall out of the ranks for a moment to lean over a gate and smile.

I can't sleep.

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.