(68 quotes found)
“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.”
James Matthew Barrie
“I've sometimes thought. . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.”
“Always be a little kinder than necessary.”
“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
“Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!”
“It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?”
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
“The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.”
“Fame is rot; daughters are the thing”
