200 Best Disney Peter Pan Quotes
Peter Pan is the ultimate Disney classic that stills reigns as one of the best Disney movies of all time. With pirates, fairies, and mermaids, who wouldn’t love Peter Pan? The 1953 film based on the book by J.M. Barrie was deemed a worldwide sensation with enough spotlight to go on to create more versions of the fairytale.
To this day, the Peter Pan amusement park ride at Magic Kingdom is one of the most popular rides and it’s easy to see why with the flying pirate ships.
Wendy, Michael, and John come across Peter Pan in their room. In a flash, they’re instantly flying through the starlit sky to a place where no one grows up, Neverland. Follow along on Peter Pan’s journey as he fights pirates and crocodiles. Here is the scoop on some of our favorite Disney Peter Pan quotes from the book and film!
1. “Now, think of the happiest things. It’s the same as having wings!” -Peter Pan
2. “After all, one can’t leave his shadow lying about and not miss it sooner or later, don’t you agree?” -Wendy
3. “Oh, I should like very much to cross swords with some real buccaneers.” -John
4. “I’ll show you this ghost has blood in his veins.” -Captain Hook
5. “All it takes is faith and trust, oh! and something I forgot: dust.” -Peter Pan
6. “Insolent pup!” -John
7. “Now, now, now, Captain, just relax. What you need is a shave. A nice soothing shave. There, now.” -Smee
8. “I think I had a mother once.” -Lost Boys
9. “That cursed Peter Pan, making a fool out of me.” -Captain Hook
10. “I’ll think of a mermaid lagoon, underneath a magic moon.” -Wendy
11. “Well, I’m certainly proud of you, you blockheads.” -Peter Pan
12. “Michael, the buried treasure. Where is it?” -John
13. “The poor captain has a splitting headache. We mustn’t annoy him.” -Smee
14. “George, dear, do hurry! We mustn’t be late for the party, you know.” -Mrs. Darling
15. “Nobody calls Pan a coward and lives!” -Peter Pan
16. “There it is, Wendy! Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” -Peter Pan
17. “One girl is worth more than twenty boys.” -Peter Pan
18. “Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” -J.M. Barrie
19. “Fairies have to be one thing or the other because being so small they, unfortunately, have room for one feeling only at a time.” -J.M. Barrie
20. “Careful, Michael, my glasses!” -John
21. “Blast that Peter Pan. If I could only find his hideout, I’d trap him in his lair.” -Captain Hook
22. “I wouldn’t want this to go any further, but the cook told me that the first mate told him that he heard that Pan has banished Tinker Bell.” -Smee
23. “If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.” -J.M. Barrie
24. “To die will be an awfully big adventure.” -J.M. Barrie
25. “Oh, Mary. Of all the impossible, childish fiddle-faddle, Peter Pan, indeed.” -Mr. Darling
26. “I’m a codfish.” -Captain Hook
27. “Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.” -J.M. Barrie
28. “Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?” -J.M. Barrie
29. “I’m so happy, I think I’ll give you a kiss.” -Wendy
30. “You can’t stick it on with soap, Peter! It needs sewing. That’s the proper way to do it.” -Wendy
31. “Stop playing and help me find my shadow! Shadow … shadow …” -Peter Pan
32. “Look alive, you swabs! We’ve got him this time, Mr. Smee.” -Captain Hook
33. “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” -J.M. Barrie
34. “I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.” -J.M. Barrie
35. “Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood, they had met their dead father and had a game with him.” -J.M. Barrie
36. “I say, Wendy…always if you see me forgetting you, just keep on saying ‘I’m Wendy,’ and then I’ll remember.” -J.M. Barrie
37. “Oh, Peter, you saved my life!” -Wendy
38. “Poor Nana. Oh, yes, poor Nana. But poor father? Oh, no.” -Mr. Darling
39. “When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” -J.M. Barrie
40. “All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” -J.M. Barrie
41. “Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came.” -J.M. Barrie
42. “I’ll teach you how to jump on the wind’s back, and then away we go.” -J.M. Barrie
43. “Why, Peter, a mother’s someone who loves and cares for you and tells you stories.” -Wendy
44. “But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy, and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.” -J.M. Barrie
45. “Faint hearts never won, Fair Lady.” -J.M. Barrie
46. “You killed Rufio, you kidnapped my children. You deserve to die.”-J.M. Barrie
47. “All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.” -Peter Pan
48. “I suppose it’s like the ticking crocodile, isn’t it? Time is chasing after all of us.” -J.M. Barrie
49. “Boy, why are you crying?” -Peter Pan
50. “I remember you being a lot bigger.” -Peter Pan
51. “Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams.” -Peter Pan
52. “Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?” -J.M. Barrie
53. “He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.” -J.M. Barrie
54. “Dark and sinister man, have at thee.” -Peter Pan
55. “It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.” -J.M. Barrie
56. “Keep adventuring and stay not a grown-up.” -Peter Pan
57. “Don’t grow up, it’s a trap.” -Peter Pan
58. “No! No, Mr. Skunkhead with too much mousse. You are just a punk kid. I want to speak to a grown-up!” -J.M. Barrie
59. “Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older.” -J.M. Barrie
60. “There is a saying in Neverland that every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.” -Peter Pan
61. “Firefly from hell!” -J.M. Barrie
62. “Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.” -Peter Pan
63. “I taught you to fight and fly. What more could there be?” -Peter Pan
64. “So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things and your heart will fly on wings forever in Never-never land.” -Peter Pan
65. “Nothing, precious, they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.” -J.M. Barrie
66. “You know that place between sleep and awake where you’re always dreaming? That’s where I’ll always love you. That’s where I’ll be waiting.” -J.M. Barrie
67. “Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woken into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened but woke is better and was always used by Peter.” -J.M. Barrie
68. “You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there’s always someone who wants to destroy it.” -J.M. Barrie
69. “Jack, Maggie, all you have to do is think one happy thought, and you’ll fly like me.” -Peter Pan
70. “You’re not old enough to shave! What are you doing flying with a sword? And flying around… this is an insurance nightmare!” -J.M. Barrie
71. “If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!” -J.M. Barrie
72. “There are many different kinds of bravery. There’s the bravery of thinking of others before oneself. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family and put away many dreams.” -J.M. Barrie
73. “On these magic shores children at play are forever beaching their coracles. We too have been there, we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.” -J.M. Barrie
74. “In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.” -J.M. Barrie
75. “Oh, the cleverness of me!” -Peter Pan
76. “When pirates and lost boys meet, they merely bite their thumbs at each other.” -Peter Pan
77. “I’m youth, I’m joy.” -J.M. Barrie
78.”It is so naughty of him not to wipe his feet.” -Wendy
79. “It all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying she had been dreaming.” -J.M. Barrie
80. “Oh no, he isn’t grown up, and he is just my size.” -Wendy
81. “Wendy had danced with joy, just as the real Mrs. Darling must have done.” -J.M. Barrie
82. “Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact.” -J.M. Barrie
83. “I don’t know how there was room for them, but you can squeeze very tight in the Neverland.” -J.M. Barrie
84. “The only sound I hear is like a tinkle of bells.” -Wendy
85. “Tink agreed to travel by hat if it was carried in the hand.” -J.M. Barrie
86. “It is quite impossible to say how time does wear on in the Neverland…” -J.M. Barrie
87. “Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter.” -J.M. Barrie
88. “Wendy loved to lend her bracelet to her mother.” -J.M. Barrie
89. “Wendy had lived such a home life that to know fairies struck her as quite delightful.” -J.M. Barrie
90. “But in her dream, he had rent the film that obscures the Neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael peeping through the gap.” -J.M. Barrie
91. “They drew near the Neverland; for after many moons they did reach it.” -Peter Pan
92. “He had carried Tinker Bell part of the way, and his hand was still messy with the fairy dust.” -J.M. Barrie
93. “Her wings would scarcely carry her now, but in reply, she alighted on his shoulder and gave his nose a loving bite.” -J.M. Barrie
94.”When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.” -J.M. Barrie
95. “This is all your doing.” -Captain Hook
96. “…children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.” -J.M. Barrie
97. “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.” -J.M. Barrie
98. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” -Peter Pan
99. “After you have been unfair to him, he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness…” -J.M. Barrie
100. “There was not a pocket between the four of them.” -Peter Pan and Wendy
101. “You don’t think I would kill him while he was sleeping! I would wake him first and then kill him. That’s the way I always do.” -Peter Pan
102. “She staves off the altar with a hatchet.” -J.M. Barrie
103. “To sit still seemed to him such a comic thing to do.” -J.M. Barrie
104. “I forget them after I kill them.” -Peter Pan
105. “Wendy came first, then John, then Michael.” -J.M. Barrie
106. “Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.” -Peter Pan
107. “Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.” -J.M. Barrie
108. “A moment after the fairy’s entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.” -J.M. Barrie
109. “Sometimes, though not often, he had dreams, and they were more painful than the dreams of other boys. For hours he could not be separated from these dreams, though he wailed piteously in them. They had to do, I think, with the riddle of his existence.” -J.M. Barrie
110. “Old. Alone. Done for.” -Captain Hook
111. “Captain, the ice is melting, the sun is out, the flowers are all in bloom.” -Smee
112. “Wow. Two dead already.” -Smee
113. “I do believe in fairies. I do! I do!” -Peter Pan
114. “Never is an awfully long time.” -Wendy
115. “You wouldn’t do ol’ Hook in now, would you, lad? I’ll go away forever.” -Captain Hook
116. “I said nothing of the sort!” -Peter Pan
117. “Oh, Smee, the way of a man with a maid; taking the best years of her life and then casting her aside like an old glove!” -Captain Hook
118. “He’s giving an oration in sign language.” -John
119. “Did you say that Pan has banished Tinkerbell?” -Captain Hook
120. “Kidnapped?” -Mr. Darling
121. “So, you want a splash, Mr. Starkey? I’ll give you a splash!” -Captain Hook
122. “Oh… well, I think she’s lovely.” -Wendy
123. “That’s no mother!” -Lost Boy (Bear)
124. “Squaw no get ’em firewood! Squaw go home!” -Wendy
125. “We had lots of fun with Tinker Bell, and the mermaids, and Peter Pan! Oh, he was the most wonderful person of them all! And then we called him a codfish!” -Wendy
126. “Great Scott, you’re right, Smee!” -Captain Hook
127. “Absolute poppycock!” -Mr. Darling
128. “Wendy, haven’t I warned you? Stuffing the boys’ heads with a lot of silly stories?” -Mr. Darling
129. “This time, no turnum loose.” -Indian Chief
130. “Why, Captain, cutting your hand off was only a childish prank, you might say.” -Smee
131. “And he would’ve had you by now, Captain, if he hadn’t swallowed that alarm clock. But now, when he’s about, he’d warn you, as you might say, with his tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.” -Smee
132. “You mean you won’t fly?” -Captain Hook
133. “This ain’t no place for a respectable pirate.” -Smee
134. “Don’t you understand, Tink? You mean more to me than anything in this whole world!” -Peter Pan
135. “Poor Nana? This is the last straw! Out! Out, I say!” -Mr. Darling
136. “Oh! I found it, Captain! Good as new!” -Smee
137. “It’s easy! All you have to do is to… is to… is to… Ha! That’s funny.” -Peter Pan
138. “Come, Smee, we must leave immediately. We’ll surround Peter’s home…” -Captain Hook
139. “Uh… ready to grow up.” -Wendy
140. “Chomped at me the other night at the window.” -Peter Pan
141. “Wendy’s enough.” -Peter Pan
142. “I think I’ll be an Indian brave.” -Michael
143. “Yyyyyyyup, just a little bit of pixie dust.” -Peter Pan
144. “I told him all along you Indians wouldn’t betray Peter Pan.” -Smee
145. “But, Captain, wouldn’t it be more humane-like to slit his throat?” -Smee
146. “What’s the pixie doing?” -Michael
147. “That’s not countin’ the holidays, either.” -Smee
148. “Dust?” -Wendy and John
149. “I had a white rat.” -Lost Boy (Fox)
150. “Goodness gracious, whatever shall we do?” -Mr. Darling
151. “For the last time, Mr. Smee, take the princess back to her people.” -Peter Pan
152. “Call Scotland Yard!” -Mr. Darling
153. “He says… “Peter Pan… mighty warrior… save Tigerlily… make big chief… heap glad.”-John
154. “Ain’t it a bloomin’…” -Smee
155. “Dash it all, Nana, don’t look at me like that. It’s nothing personal, it’s just that… well, you’re not really a nurse at all, you’re… well, a dog. And the children aren’t puppies, they’re people. And sooner or later, Nana, people have to grow up.” -Mr. Darling
156. “Why you doddering imbecile, I…” -Captain Hook
157. “I say, Captain, do you hear something?” -Peter Pan
158. “Yes, yes. A hop, skip, and a jump across Crocodile Creek and then nor’ by nor’east, one, two, three…” -Captain Hook
159. “Thank you, me dear, you’ve been most helpful.” -Captain Hook
160. “Peter Pan, Father.” -Wendy
161. “For many moons, red man fight paleface Lost Boys.” -Indian Chief
162. “Me no spoofum! Where you hide Princess Tiger Lily?” -Indian Chief
163. “I mean it! Young lady, this is your last night in the nursery!” -Mr. Darling
164. “Aye but throwing it to that crocodile! That cursed beast liked the taste of me so well he’s followed me ever since, licking his chops for the rest of me.” -Captain Hook
165. “Ha-ha-ha! You wouldn’t dare fight old Hook man-to-man. You’d fly away like a cowardly sparrow!” -Captain Hook
166. “A jealous female can be tricked into anything.” -Captain Hook
167. “To tell the boys we sail with the tide, sir.” -Smee
168. “Mermaid Lagoon? No, we’ve search that. And we’ve combed Cannibal Cove.” -Captain Hook
169. “B-B-But-But will she talk, Captain?” -Smee
170. “Here! No. No, no, no, that’s Indian territ… But wait. Those redskins know this island better than I do me own ship. Ah, I wonder.” -Captain Hook
171. “No, father! No!” -Michael
172. “Captain! Oh, dear! I’ve never shaved his ghost before!” -Smee
173. “And then… we sailed away on a ship in the sky.” -Wendy
174. “Well, Captain. It’s nice to see you smiling again. Brings back the good old days when we were leading a healthy, normal life, scuttling ships, cutting throats.” -Smee
175. “We’ll shanghai Wendy!” -Captain Hook
176. “Yes, Miss Bell, Captain Hook admits defeat. Tomorrow, I leave the island, never to return.” -Captain Hook
177. “What’s the chief doing, John?” -Wendy
178. “Peter Pan’s.” -Mrs. Darling
179. “Why, yes, Captain. Didn’t you just say to go…” -Smee
180. “Start at Pegleg Point…” -Captain Hook
181. “Fly, of course.” -Peter Pan
182. “Sometime, you win; sometime, we win.” -Indian Chief
183. “Mary, unless I find my cufflinks, we don’t go to the party! If we don’t go to the party, I can never show my face in the office again! If I could ever…” -Mr. Darling
184. “No, don’t, Peter! It’s a trick!” -Wendy
185. “Mr. Crocodile, do you like codfish?” -Peter Pan
186. “And where do you think *you* are going?” -Captain Hook
187. “T-T-Tiger Lily, Captain?” -Smee
188. “What a pity, Mr. Smee. I’m afraid we’ve lost the dear Captain.” -Peter Pan
189. “Begging your pardon Miss Bell, but Captain Hook would like a word with you.” -Smee
190. “Now let me see, where was I?” -Captain Hook
191. “Get up, you idiot!” -Captain Hook
192. “Oh, no, John, it was the *left* hand.” -Wendy
193. ” I certainly have never seen her.” -John
194. “Turn us loose? You mean this is only a game?” -John
195. “Neverland?” -Mr. Darling
196. “Oh, we had such a wonderful time! Well, except when we were kidnapped…” -Wendy
197. “What was she like?” -Lost Boy (Raccoon)
198. “A pixie.” -Wendy
199. “And now, Smee, to take care of master Peter Pan.” -Captain Hook
200. “Well, at last, Captain Hook’s comin’ to his senses.” -Smee
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