‘Peter Pan’ is a famous play and novel by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie.
Peter teaches the Darling children to fly and takes them to Neverland, where they confront pirates and other dangers.
Let’s explore some of the best quotes from Peter Pan novel by J. M. Barrie.
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Peter Pan Quotes by J.M. Barrie
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Oh, the cleverness of me!” ~ James M. Barrie, Peter Pan.
“Two is the beginning of the end.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.” ~ James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan.
“There is a saying in the Neverland that, every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Do you know,” Peter asked, “why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Proud and insolent youth,” said Hook, “prepare to meet thy doom.” “Dark and sinister man,” Peter answered, “have at thee.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
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Quotes from Peter Pan
“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“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.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“All children, except one, grow up.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“No matter how hard we try to be mature, we will always be a kid when we all get hurt and cry.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Never is an awfully long time.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“She’s awfully fond of Wendy,’ he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: ‘I’m fond of her too. We can’t both have her, lady.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
Famous Peter Pan Quotes
“One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Just always be waiting for me.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan). and Wendy
“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.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.” ~ James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan: Peter and Wendy.
“She also said she would give him a kiss if he liked, but Peter did not know what she meant, and he held out his hand expectantly.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
Top Peter Pan Quotes by J.M. Barrie
“Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” ~ Sir James Barrie, Peter Pan
“You just think lovely wonderful thoughts,” Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“I think it’s perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls…” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Wendy,” Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, “Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“When there’s a smile in your heart, there’s no better time to start.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“To live will be an awfully big adventure.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
Powerful Peter Pan Quotes by J.M. Barrie
“They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“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.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Second to the right, and straight on till morning.” That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” ~ J.M. Barrie , Peter Pan
“I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back, and then away we go.” ~ J.M. Barrie (quote from the Peter Pan).
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