The Best Peter Pan quotes

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children. — J.M. Barrie

Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa. — James M. Barrie

I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back, and then away we go. — J.M. Barrie

Go on! Go back and grow up! But I’m warning you, once you’re grown up you can never come back. — 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. — Peter Pan

One girl is worth more than twenty boys. — Peter Pan

I came to listen to the stories. — Peter Pan

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust. — J.M. Barrie

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. — J.M. Barrie

I am the best there ever was! — J.M. Barrie

You don’t think I would kill him while he was sleeping! I would wake him first, and then kill him. That’s the way I always do. — J.M. Barrie

Can anything harm us, mother, after the night–lights are lit?’ Nothing, precious,’ she said; ‘they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children. — James M. Barrie

Two is the beginning of the end. — J.M. Barrie

Keep adventuring and stay not a grown–up. — J.M. Barrie

Never is an awfully long time. — J.M. Barrie

When there’s a smile in your heart, there’s no better time to start. — Peter Pan

To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze. — J.M. Barrie

I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — J.M. Barrie

Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first? — J.M. Barrie

When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, ‘Pretty mother, pretty mother.’ But when at last she really came, I shot her. — James M. Barrie

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

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! — J.M. Barrie

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again. — J.M. Barrie

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

Now, think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings! — Peter Pan

Think of all the joy you’ll find when you leave the world behind and bid your cares goodbye. — 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

They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can’t. — James M. Barrie

Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you’ll never, never have to worry about grown–up things again. — J.M. Barrie

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown–up. — J.M. Barrie

Dark and sinister man, have at thee. — J.M. Barrie

Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful. — J.M. Barrie

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. — J. M. Barrie

Don’t grow up. It’s a trap. — Peter Pan

To die will be an awfully big adventure. — J.M. Barrie