James M. Barrie Long Quotations

They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.

Never is an awfully long time.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again. Never is an awfully long time.

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

Forever is a very long time Peter

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.