The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe. James M. Barrie More Quotes by James M. Barrie More Quotes From James M. Barrie You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable. James M. Barrie comfortable fame The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them. James M. Barrie novelists giving fiction In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done. James M. Barrie making-love done art 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 positively deafening. James M. Barrie greed tea believe What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things? James M. Barrie math funny science I like well to be in the company of explorers James M. Barrie explorers company wells Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are. James M. Barrie girl baby boys They hold their great balls in the open air, in what is called a fairy-ring. For weeks afterward you can see the ring on the grass. It is not there when they begin, but they make it by waltzing round and round. Sometimes you will find mushrooms inside the ring, and these are fairy chairs that the servants have forgotten to clear away. The chairs and the rings are the only tell-tale marks these little people leave behind them, and they would remove even these were they not so fond of dancing that they toe it till the very moment of the opening of the gates. James M. Barrie mushrooms air people Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again." James M. Barrie times-have-changed sitting bye She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered. James M. Barrie sarcastic If I were younger, I'd know more. James M. Barrie aging wisdom age The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in. James M. Barrie littles heaven children Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night. James M. Barrie halloween men night Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs. James M. Barrie cups life-is tea If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore. James M. Barrie affair these-days strange 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. James M. Barrie laughter birthday baby Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others James M. Barrie china break caring The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it. James M. Barrie doe men science You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas. James M. Barrie race wind men One's religion is whatever he is most interested in. James M. Barrie success religion