11 Quotes by 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 a thing of contrasts and comparisons, like health or strength or beauty or any other good--that wouldn't even be noticed but for sad personal experience of its opposite!--or its greater!

Language is a poor thing. You fill your lungs with wind and shake a little slit in your throat, and make mouths, and that shakes the air; and the air shakes a pair of little drums in my head—a very complicated arrangement, with lots of bones behind—and my brain seizes your meaning in the rough. What a roundabout way, and what a waste of time.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.