Daphne du Maurier

“She laughed because she must, and because he made her;”

— Daphne du Maurier

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

— Daphne du Maurier

“Happy in his silence yet eager for his words.”

— Daphne du Maurier

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

— Daphne du Maurier

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

— Daphne du Maurier

“I don't mind. I like being alone.”

— Daphne du Maurier

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

— Daphne du Maurier

“He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone...”

— Daphne du Maurier

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part…

— Daphne du Maurier

“A mí se me nota todo en la cara; si me gusta alguien o no, si estoy enfadada o contenta. No me…

— Daphne du Maurier

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all.

— Daphne du Maurier

“And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural.”

— Daphne du Maurier

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

— Daphne du Maurier

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

— Daphne du Maurier

“How alive was her writing though, how full of force. Those curious, sloping letters.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“I found this hardly comforting, and wondered if there was not some virtue in the quality of insincerity.”

— Daphne du Maurier

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with…

— Daphne du Maurier

“As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it…

— Daphne du Maurier

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Men and women who have never lived make finer captives on the printed page, or if they have lived, and are historical,…

— Daphne du Maurier

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

— Daphne du Maurier

“It was a day to be inside somewhere, cosseted and loved; by a warm fireside with the clatter of friendly cups and…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The rest of the little party had moved away, embarrassed, distressed, unwilling witnesses of what appeared to be an excess of faith.”

— Daphne du Maurier

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I might say that we have paid for freedom. But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give…

— Daphne du Maurier

“My realisation that all I had ever done in life, not only in France but in England also, was to watch people,…

— Daphne du Maurier

“What trail of thought, confused and indirect, drove through those minds of theirs, to cloud their judgement? What waves of impulse swept…

— Daphne du Maurier

“He took her face in his hands and kissed it, and she saw that he was laughing. "When you're an old maid…

— Daphne du Maurier

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried…

— Daphne du Maurier

But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our…

— Daphne du Maurier

Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal…

— Daphne du Maurier

There was never an accident.Rebecca was not drowned at all. I killed her.I shot Rebecca in the cottage in the cove.I carried…

— Daphne du Maurier

“We went through the Happy Valley to the little cove. The azaleas were finished now, the petals lay brown and crinkled on…

— Daphne du Maurier

“We went back into the drawing room. The evening had passes pleasantly enough, heaven knows, but I was glad that they had…

— Daphne du Maurier

“This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense.…

— Daphne du Maurier

“I left them to it, the pointing of fingers on maps, the tracing of mountain villages, the tracks and contours on maps…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Fine,” I answered. “Now what about a drink?” I followed him up the corridor once more, across the entrance hall, and on…

— Daphne du Maurier

“When Stephen talked about stalking chamois his whole expression changed. The features became more aquiline, the nose sharpened, the chin narrowed, and…

— Daphne du Maurier

“He leaned over the rail and stared down into the Pool with interest. It was certainly not much of a place, the…

— Daphne du Maurier

“What a bore! Especially when the day had gone so well. She had no desire to read or listen to records. His…

— Daphne du Maurier