George du Maurier quotes
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“An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.”
-- George du MaurierSource : 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 MaurierSource : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.119, tredition
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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 MaurierSource : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic
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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 MaurierSource : 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.”
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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.”
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“A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!”
-- George du MaurierSource : 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 MaurierSource : 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
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“I left Apple in April of 1984, pretty soon after the introduction of the Mac.”
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Source : Carrie Rebora Barratt, Gilbert Stuart, Ellen Gross Miles (2004). “Gilbert Stuart”, p.6, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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“Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.”
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“You don't come in here on Sunday with a big banana and expect everything to be peaches.”
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“Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.”
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“I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens… a helpful skill in Congress.”
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