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

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 cannot lie, for all their sw…

- George Du Maurier

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

- 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 the…

- George Du Maurier

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

- 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, just a thing of contrasts and co…

- 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

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