"Barrie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... weaver there James Smith mason there Hugh Wallace of Bergow there Frances Murdoch there James Smith there Archibald Campbel there Andrew Ritchie there George Beveridge there James Oliphant there Elizabeth Lindsay there William Barrie there John D{illegible}ak there Robert Glover weaver there Mary Glover in Craigne Jas. Stuart shoemaker Glasgow John Shearer smith in Barony Wm. Watchman weaver there Robert Allan do. there James Wallace do. mid Quarter James Allan there John Wotherspoon weaver there John M'Allun ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie
... Barrie writes is literature, because he dwells isolate amidst the world in a wise minority of one. The things that he says are of importance because nobody else could have said them. He has achieved individuality, and thereby passed out of hearing of the ticking of clocks into an ever-ever land ...
— The Theory of the Theatre • Clayton Hamilton
... has been saturating himself with Barrie," Kendal said. "If I could reproduce Barrie on canvas, I'd go, like a shot. By the way, Miss Bell, there's somebody you are, interested in—do you see a middle-aged man, rather bald, thick-set, coming this ...
— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)
... number of persons, living dispersedly about America, prepared to like my books when these books were brought to their attention. The difficulty had been that we did not know how to reach these widely scattered, congenial readers. But you—like Sir James Barrie's hero—"found a way." ...
— Taboo - A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Saevius Nicanor, with - Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir • James Branch Cabell
... Rabelais or Robert Burns appeared again in mortal form and took to writing plays, they would be "new" dramatists with a vengeance—as new as ever Ibsen was, and assuredly they would be sincere. But could they well be called "serious"? Can we call Synge, or St. John Hankin, or Shaw, or Barrie serious? Hardly! Yet they are all of this new movement in their very different ways, because they are sincere. The word "serious," in fact, has too narrow a significance and admits a deal of pompous stuff which is not sincere. ...
— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy |
