J. M. Barrie

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

— J. M. Barrie

#every #every man #go #high #himself

To die will be an awfully big adventure. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#awfully #big #big adventure #die #will

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#equal #equality #hall #his #lordship

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#bloom #else #matter #much #need

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#failures #least #us

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#infirmity #last #minds #noble

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#child #dead #down #every #every time

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#corpse #ever #good #good wishes #jealousy

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#because #been #golden #hours #letting