George du Maurier Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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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