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I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.
Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin?
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
He who distributes the milk of human kindness cannot help but spill a little on himself.
A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.
Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.
You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.
You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men.
She asked where he lived. Second to the right,' said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning.
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
Them that has china plates themsel's is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.
Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.
Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
We have a right to know the truth; no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.
"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.