Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Quotes

“He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“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, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Ah, Peter, we who have made the great mistake, how differently we should all act at the second chance. But Solomon was right; there is no second chance, not for most of us. When we reach the window it is lock-out time. The iron bars are up for life.”
― James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you know now that you ought not to do this, for he is very likely taking it to Peter
Pan.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Nosotros también hemos estado allí y aún recordamos el murmullo de las olas, aunque no volveremos a desembarcar jamás.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“I can give you the power to fly to her house," the Queen said, "but I can't open the door for you.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“We were having another look among the bushes for David's lost worsted ball, and instead of the ball we found a lovely nest made of the worsted, and containing four eggs, with scratches on them very like David's handwriting, so we think they must have been the mother's love-letters to the little ones inside.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“perhaps we could all fly if we were as dead-confident-sure of our capacity to do it as was bold Peter Pan that evening”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“You will be a Betwixt-and-Between,”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Peter became very clever at helping the birds to build their nests; soon he could build better than a wood-pigeon, and nearly as well as a blackbird, though never did he satisfy the finches, and he made nice little water-troughs near the nests and dug up worms for the young ones with his fingers. He also became very learned in bird-lore, and knew an east wind from a west wind by its smell, and he could see the grass growing and hear the insects walking about inside the tree-trunks.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“El modo en el que le otorgaron el poder de volar fue este: todas le hicieron cosquillas en los hombros y pronto sintió un divertido cosquilleo en esa parte, y entonces se alzó más y más alto y salió volando fuera de los jardines y sobre los tejados de las casas.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Maimie said aghast, ‘I can’t believe it. You see, when you went away your mother had none, but my mother has Tony, and surely they are satisfied when they have one.’
Peter replied bitterly, ‘You should see the letters Solomon gets from ladies who have six.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens