Daphne du Maurier

“I did so obediently, and waited for her approval.”

— Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

— Daphne du Maurier

“I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead”

— Daphne du Maurier

Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.

— Daphne du Maurier

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

— Daphne du Maurier

“What degradation lay in being young.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“She's dearer than life itself, that's all I know.”

— Daphne du Maurier

A bad workman blames his tools.

— Daphne du Maurier

“I like simple things, books, being alone, or someone who understands.”

— Daphne du Maurier

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

— Daphne du Maurier

“The relief was tremendous. I did not feel sick anymore. The pain had gone...I had no idea I was so empty.”

— Daphne du Maurier

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

— Daphne du Maurier

“Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“At twenty-three it takes very little to make the spirits soar.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“He's made his own hell and there's no one but himself to thank for it.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“We all of us have our particular devil who ruses us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”

— Daphne du Maurier

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they…

— Daphne du Maurier

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I…

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“But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Do you know so little about children, Monsieur Jean,' she asked, 'that you imagine, because they don't cry, therefore they feel nothing?…

— Daphne du Maurier

“But you know the old saying? Out of sight, out of mind. If people aren't there to be talked about the talk…

— Daphne du Maurier

If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably illtempered in the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“There's a home for you here at North Hill, you know that, and my wife joins me in begging you to stay.…

— Daphne du Maurier

He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and…

— Daphne du Maurier

“What was the point of having a man if all he could do was turn his back and sleep? Not that she…

— Daphne du Maurier

“We were like two performers in a play, but we were divided, we were not acting with one another. We had to…

— Daphne du Maurier

Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was…

— Daphne du Maurier

“There was silence between them for moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Grey put me up for his club. I dine there most evenings. Fellows there have been extraordinarily kind. I go out often,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Then all at once she turned to me, her face pale, her eyes strangely alight. She said, “Is it possible to love…

— Daphne du Maurier

“You have qualities that are just as important, far more so, in fact. It's perhaps cheeky of me to say so, I…

— Daphne du Maurier

“It seemed incredible to me now that I had never understood. I wondered how many people there were in the world who…

— Daphne du Maurier

“They jogged along in silence, Jem playing with the thong of the whip, and Mary aware of his hands beside her. She…

— Daphne du Maurier

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The children left him and ran. A pathway led up through the close sapling oaks, and almost at the top of the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Seen on her own, the woman was not so remarkable. Tall, angular, aquiline features, with the close-cropped hair which was fashionably called…

— Daphne du Maurier

“…he proceeded to cut carefully a thin slice from the loaf, which he quartered in pieces and buttered for her, the whole…

— Daphne du Maurier

“He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants…

— Daphne Du Maurier

“...a new day was starting, the things of the garden were not concerned with our troubles. A blackbird ran across the rose-garden…

— Daphne du Maurier

...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the…

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