Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it by day with the chairs and table-cloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are night-lights.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.