Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1ST Baronet is the creator of a well-loved character, called Peter Pan. The child of a small town weaver, Barrie was born in Scotland on May 9 1860. The Scottish dramatist and author created one of the most popular characters in Disneyland, the boy who never grow up.
Peter Pan is an adaptation of a stage play, written by a Scottish playwright and novelist J.M. Barrie. The play is about a boy, an ageless and mischievous boy who lives in an island called Neverland a place where mermaids, Indians, wild beast, fairies and pirates lives. The leader of the lost boys and Wendy’s best friend, a character often featured in a wide range of media merchandise has inspired children for many years, across the globe.
James Barrie Peter Pan has scores hundreds of spinoffs, dramatization, condensation, sequels and prequels since published. Peter Pan antics and never ending adventure continues to stole the heart of millions of children even today, especially Peter Pan quotes.
Famous Peter Pan Quotes
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
“For to have faith, is to have wings” Peter Pan”
“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That’s where I’ll always think of you.”
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”
Quotes From Peter Pan
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
“All children, except one, grow up.”
“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
“asleep to rummage in their minds”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.”
“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
“They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.”
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.”
“All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.”
“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?”
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
“There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.”
“On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.”
“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.”
“…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.”
“I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.”
“Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.”
“After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”
“Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.”
“Two is the beginning of the end.”
“Pan, who and what art thou?”
“I’m youth, I’m joy,” “I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
“I’m not young enough to know everything.”
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life
if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
“Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning. ”
“To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
More Peter Pan Quotes
“Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them”
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
“If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!”
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
“All children, except one, grow up.”
“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”
“If you have it [love], you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter much what else you have.”
“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
“Never is an awfully long time.”
“One girl is worth more use than 20 boys.”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.”
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”
“Oh, the cleverness of me!”
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