James M. Barrie Quotes
I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.
Barrie, J. M. My Lady Nicotine. Hodder & Stoughton, 1890, p. 1.
Henry Ford had an absolute phobia about tobacco. Although the terrible carcinogenic effect of smoking was not known at the time, Ford was convinced that cigarettes deteriorated the brain and turned people into criminals. He banned smoking in all Ford plants and offices. This is a good example of doing the right thing for the wrong reason.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's 1902 adult novel The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 1904 "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.
