The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle. George du Maurier More Quotes by George du Maurier More Quotes From George du Maurier An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach. George du Maurier apples cooking food 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 A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day! George du Maurier good-day play littles 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 fancy space littles 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 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 odds beer long 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 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 pretty-woman doubt sweet
