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George du Maurier Quotes

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

George du Maurier
Food, Apples, Cooking
George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, Booklassic

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

George du Maurier
Moon, Men, Years

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

George du Maurier
Good Day, Play, Littles
George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.287, Booklassic

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

George du Maurier
Space, Littles, Fancy
George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.337, tredition

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel.

George du Maurier
Sweet, Lying, Past

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

George du Maurier
Beer, Odds, Long
George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic

The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.

George du Maurier
Circles, Smoking, Quitting
George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.119, tredition

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

George du Maurier
Lovely, Female, Shapes
George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.32, Booklassic

I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot Browne alone-and none of them present any very marked physical characteristics. They are sweet and graceful, neither tall nor short; they have a pretty droop in their shoulders, and are very ladylike; sometimes they wear ringlets, sometimes not, and each would do very easily for the other.

George du Maurier
Sweet, Pretty Woman, Doubt

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