George du Maurier quotes

“An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.”
-- George du Maurier

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.157, 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

Source : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.119, tredition

#Circles Quotes #Smoking Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“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

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic

#Beer Quotes #Odds Quotes #Long Quotes

“Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.”
-- George du Maurier

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.32, Booklassic

#Lovely Quotes #Female Quotes #Shapes Quotes

“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

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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 Quotes #Men Quotes #Years Quotes

“A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!”
-- George du Maurier

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.287, Booklassic

#Good Day Quotes #Play Quotes #Littles Quotes

“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

Source : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.337, tredition

#Space Quotes #Littles Quotes #Fancy Quotes

“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 Quotes #Lying Quotes #Past Quotes

“Too many people don't protect their smartphones with a password or PIN. I anticipate that Apple's fingerprint reader will in fact make iPhone 5S owners more likely to secure their smartphones.”

“I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.”

“The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people”

“What a business is this of a portrait painter! You bring him a potato and expect he will paint you a peach.”

Source : Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art

“Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.”

“You don't come in here on Sunday with a big banana and expect everything to be peaches.”

“Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.”

“Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.”

“You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.”

“I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.”