George du Maurier

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

— George du Maurier

Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please,…

— George du Maurier

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

— George du Maurier

“But you are not listening, sapperment! great big she-fool that you are—sheep’s-head! Dummkopf! Donnerwetter! you are looking at the chimney-pots when Svengali…

— George du Maurier

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

— George du Maurier

Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that…

— George du Maurier

“And, ach! what a beautiful skeleton you will make! And very soon, too, because you do not smile on your madly loving…

— George du Maurier

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

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

“Happiness is like time and space--we make and measure it ourselves; it is a fancy--as big, as little, as you please; just…

— George Du Maurier

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

— George du Maurier

“It is a wondrous thing, the human foot—like the human hand; even more so, perhaps; but, unlike the hand, with which we…

— George du Maurier

“Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths,…

— George du Maurier

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…

— George du Maurier