I leave you the best phrases of Peter Pan, a character created by the Scottish writer James Matthew Barrie for a play premiered in London on December 27, 1904 called Peter Pan and Wendy. It was made into a movie by Disney in 1953 and subsequently on more occasions.
The phrases that we show you below belong to the play by Matthew Barrie and are from him (narrator) and his main characters; Peter Pan, Wendy, Hook, Mrs. Darling… You may also be interested in these phrases from The Lion King.
- "Today's children know so many things that they soon stop believing in fairies." -Peter Pan.
- “Do you know why swallows nest in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to stories. " - Peter Pan.
- "First impressions are very important." - Peter Pan.
- "Only those who are cheerful, innocent and insensitive, can fly." - Wendy.
- "Oh, why can't you stay like this forever!" - Mrs. Darling.
- "The two years mark the beginning of the end." - JM Barrie.
- "His romantic mentality was like those little boxes from the mysterious East, which go one inside the other and that no matter how many one discovers there is always one more." - JM Barrie.
- “Every night, every good mother has the custom, after her children have fallen asleep, to search their imagination and put things in order for the next morning, putting the numerous things that have left in their corresponding places. during the day." - JM Barrie.
- "Children run the strangest adventures without flinching." - JM Barrie.
- "We hope that our children die as English gentlemen." - Wendy.
- "If he had any weakness, it was to believe that all his life he had taken medicines with courage." - JM Barrie.
- “It seems very good that you say that you are waiting; I'm waiting too. ”- Mr. Darling.
- “-Michael: Mom, is there something that could hurt us, after lighting the night lamps? - Mrs. Darling: No, my dear, they are the eyes that a mother leaves to protect her children. "
- “The stars are beautiful, but they cannot actively participate in anything, they have to limit themselves to observing forever. It is a punishment that was imposed on them for something they did so long ago that no star remembers what it was. " - JM Barrie.
- "Older stars have glazed over their eyes and rarely speak, but little ones are still curious." - JM Barrie.
- “A marvelous tinkling like golden bells answered him. That is the language of fairies. " - JM Barrie.
- “Not only did he not have a mother, but he did not feel the slightest desire to have one. It seemed to her that they were people who had been given an exaggerated importance. " - JM Barrie.
- "If I am useless at least I can retire." - Wendy.
- "Wendy, a girl is worth more than twenty boys." - Peter Pan.
- "Oh no, you know, girls are too smart to fall out of their strollers." - Peter Pan.
- “What would it be to kill a man because he is well educated? Bad Education!" - Hook.
- "Its value was almost frightening." - JM Barrie.
- “You won't think I was going to kill him in his sleep! He would wake him up first and then kill him. It's what I always do. " - Peter Pan.
- "It turns off only when she falls asleep, just like the stars." - Peter Pan.
- "Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small unfortunately they only have room for one feeling at a time." - JM Barrie.
- "He had had fewer adventures than any of the others, because the important things always happened just when he had already turned the corner." - JM Barrie.
- "They felt sorry for him, but more for themselves." - JM Barrie.
- "The difference between the other boys and him at a time like that was that they knew everything was fake, while for him the fake and the real were exactly the same." - JM Barrie.
- "He couldn't gorge himself just for the pleasure of feeling stuffed, which is what most children like the most." - JM Barrie.
- "My God, I am convinced that sometimes single women are to be envied." - Wendy.
- "If there could be two moments, you could see the waves and hear the sirens sing." - JM Barrie.
- "I knew it hadn't gotten dark, but something as dark as night had come." - JM Barrie.
- "While he was smiling in this way no one dared to speak to him, the only thing they could do was be prepared to obey." - JM Barrie.
- "She had an impassive expression: she was the daughter of a boss, she had to die like the daughter of a boss and that was enough." - JM Barrie.
- "She was too proud to put up a useless resistance." - JM Barrie.
- "Wendy was crying, it was the first tragedy she saw." - JM Barrie.
- "Game over, those boys have found a mother." - Hook.
- "Some of the greatest heroes have confessed that just before going into combat a momentary fear entered them." - JM Barrie.
- “I could only watch, horrified. All children react like this the first time they are treated unfairly. ”- JM Barrie.
- "For the boys there was at least some appeal in the pirate vocation, but the only thing she saw was that the ship had not been scrubbed for years." - JM Barrie.
- "A sound was heard that at the same time was the most musical and the saddest in the world: the sirens singing to the Moon." - JM Barrie.
- “Only mothers are always willing to act as bumpers. All children know that mothers are like that and they despise them for it, but they take advantage of it constantly. ”- JM Barrie.
- "Dying will be an impressive adventure." - JM Barrie.
- "Perhaps the greatest adventure of all was that they had long passed the time to go to bed." - JM Barrie.
- "He was too loyal a housewife to listen to complaints against his father." - JM Barrie.
- "I am convinced that sometimes children are more of a problem than a blessing." - Wendy.
- "Strange things happen to all of us throughout our lives without us being aware for a certain time that they have happened." JM Barrie.
- "Their ignorance gave them one more hour of happiness." - JM Barrie.
- "If you knew how wonderful the love of a mother is, you would not be afraid." - Wendy.
- "So great was their faith in the love of a mother that they thought they could afford to be a little more cruel." - JM Barrie.
- "Nobody knows as quickly as a child when to give in." - JM Barrie.
- "They knew in what they called the bottom of their hearts that one can get by very well without a mother and that it is only mothers who think it is not like that." - JM Barrie.
- "Children are always ready, when something new appears, to abandon their loved ones." - JM Barrie.
- "If you find your mothers, I hope you like them." - Peter Pan.
- “According to all the unwritten laws on savage warfare, it is always the red skin that attacks and with the cunning of his race he does so just before dawn, when he knows that the value of the whites is for the soils. " - JM Barrie.
- "Surprising the redskins cleanly is something that does not fall within the capacity of the white man." - JM Barrie.
- "There they await the violent attack, the inexperienced clutching their revolvers and snapping twigs, while the veterans sleep peacefully until just before dawn." - JM Barrie.
- "Like all those who are slaves to a fixed idea, it was a stupid animal." - JM Barrie.
- "The long uncertainty is tremendously exhausting for the pale face that has to go through it for the first time, but for the old dog those frightful screams and those even more frightening silences are but an indication of how the night is passing." - JM Barrie.
- "That acuteness of the senses that is at the same time the astonishment and despair of civilized peoples." - JM Barrie.
- "It is written that the noble savage should never express surprise in the presence of the white man." - JM Barrie.
- "Always a dark and lonely enigma, he was apart from his followers both in body and soul." - JM Barrie.
- "The sooner we get rid of this fright, the better." - JM Barrie.
- "After all, she was just a girl." - JM Barrie.
- "Hook had penetrated beneath the surface of Presumptuous, seeking not effects, but causes." - JM Barrie.
- "Then she almost burst into tears, but she imagined how outraged she would get if she laughed instead, so she gave a haughty laugh." - JM Barrie.
- “Sometimes, although not often, I had nightmares and they were more painful than those of other boys. Hours passed without her being able to get away from these dreams, although she cried pitifully during them. I think they had to do with the mystery of its existence. " - JM Barrie.
- "That man was not bad at all: he loved flowers (as I have been told) and delicate music (he himself did not play the harpsichord bad at all)". - JM Barrie.
- "If his anger had broken him into a hundred pieces, each of these would have ignored the mishap" - JM Barrie.
- "She, who liked things to be as they should be!" - JM Barrie.
- "His light was getting weaker at times and he knew that if it was turned off, it would cease to exist." - JM Barrie.
- "She liked his tears so much that she stretched out a pretty finger and let them run down it." - JM Barrie.
- "I regretted that having given such strange names to the island's birds now made them very untamed and difficult to deal with." - JM Barrie.
- "The surface world had called him, but it wasn't going to help him." - JM Barrie.
- “I don't know why it was so immensely pathetic, unless it was because I was so pathetically unaware of it. “- JM Barrie.
- "In his step there was no joy, which reflected the course of his dark mind." - JM Barrie.
- “This inscrutable man never felt so lonely as when he was surrounded by his dogs. They were so socially inferior to him! " - JM Barrie.
- "The good education! As low as I may have fallen, I still knew that this is what really counts. " - JM Barrie.
- "The most disturbing idea of all was whether it wouldn't be rude to think about good manners." - JM Barrie.
- "I love her too. We can't both have it, ma'am. " - Peter Pan.