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Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures QUOTES

Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures QUOTES

1 " She let her hands play in the hair of the tragic boy. She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

2 " My dog knows very little, but what little he does know he knows extraordinarily well. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

3 " It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

4 " Mrs. Darling was married in white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost gleefully, as if it were a game, not so much as a brussels sprout was missing; but by and by whole cauliflowers dropped out, and instead of them there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been totting up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

5 " I loved even her naughtinesses, as when she stamped her foot at me, which she could not do without also gnashing her teeth, like a child trying to look fearsome. How pretty was that gnashing of her teeth! All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why she could give herself to me. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

6 " Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and caves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small old lady with a hooked nose. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

7 " The man was not wholly evil; he loved flowers (I have been told) and sweet music (he was himself no mean performer on the harpsichord); "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

8 " Never, never!" she answered with conviction, "he would have been afraid." "What is afraid?" asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. "I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie," he said. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

9 " She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful. And "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

10 " Then tell her,' Wendy begged, 'to put out her light.' 'She can't put it out. That is about the only thing fairies can't do. It just goes out of itself when she falls asleep, same as the stars.' 'Then "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

11 " She was the thing we call romance, which lives in the little hut beyond the blue haze of the pine-woods. No "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

12 " She was all on a noble scale, her attributes were so generous, her manner unconquerably gracious, her movements indolently active, her face so candid that you must swear her every thought lived always in the open. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

13 " She came to me slowly; no incomprehensible thing to me now, but transparent as a pool, and so restful to look upon that she was a bath to the eyes, like banks of moss. Because "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

14 " In his absence things are usually quiet on the island. The fairies take an hour longer in the morning, the beasts attend to their young, the redskins feed heavily for six days and nights, and when pirates and lost boys meet they merely bite their thumbs at each other. But with the coming of Peter, who hates lethargy, they are all under way again: if you put your ear to the ground now, you would hear the whole island seething with life. On "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

15 " Fifteen paid the penalty for their crimes that night; but two reached the shore: Starkey to be captured by the redskins, who made him nurse for all their papooses, a melancholy come-down for a pirate; and Smee, who henceforth wandered about the world in his spectacles, making a precarious living by saying he was the only man that Jas. Hook had feared. Wendy, "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

16 " 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. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

17 " They are forbidden by Peter to look in the least like him, and they wear the skins of bears slain by themselves, in which they are so round and furry that when they fall they roll. They have therefore become very sure-footed. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

18 " for things go briskly on the island, come the pirates on their track. We hear them before they are seen, and it is always the same dreadful song: 'Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we're parted by a shot We're sure to meet below!' A "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

19 " He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanour, showed him one of a different caste from his crew. A man of indomitable courage, it was said of him that the only thing he shied at was the sight of his own blood, which was thick and of an unusual colour. "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures

20 " Wall-flower juice is good for reviving dancers who fall to the ground in a fit, and Solomon's Seals juice is for bruises. They bruise very easily "

― J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan: The Complete Adventures