12 Amezing Peter Pan Quotes And Sayings

12 Amezing Peter Pan Quotes And Sayings

Peter Pan first appeared as a character in Barrie's The Little White Bird (1902), an adult novel. In the chapters 13-18 entitled Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter is a seven-day old baby and has flown from his nursery to Kensington Gardens in London, where the fairies and birds taught him to fly.


“All children, except one, grow up.”


“Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”


“Build a house?" exclaimed John.

"For the Wendy," said Curly.

"For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!"

"That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.” 







“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.” 


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“You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.” 


“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.” 





“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”


“Oh, the cleverness of me!” 


“All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.” 


“I suppose it's like the ticking crocodile, isn't it? Time is chasing after all of us.”




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“Pan, who and what art thou?" he cried huskily.
"I'm youth, I'm joy," Peter answered at a venture, "I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”



“I taught you to fight and to fly. What more could there be?”