Daphne du Maurier

The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much…

— Daphne du Maurier

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that…

— Daphne du Maurier

“How young and inexperienced I must have seemed, and how I felt it, too. One was too sensitive, too raw, there were…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Here is Tom Jenkyns, honest and dull, except when he drank too much. It's true that his wife was a scold, but…

— Daphne du Maurier

Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness…

— Daphne du Maurier

When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world.

— 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

“You have to endure something yourself before it touched you.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“It does happen, you know, from time to time, that a man finds a woman who is the answer to all his…

— Daphne du Maurier

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

— Daphne du Maurier

We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep…

— Daphne du Maurier

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Friendship and duty are two separate things,” he said, “and I put duty first. You are another generation, you wouldn’t understand.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. I…

— Daphne du Maurier

And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.

— 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

“...somewhere there is a Dona of tomorrow, a Dona of the future, of ten years away, to whom all of this will…

— Daphne du Maurier

He stole horses' you'll say to yourself, 'and he didn't care for women; and but for my pride I'd have been with…

— Daphne du Maurier

“It was unlike anything I had ever known. I had no feeling, no pain.”

— Daphne du Maurier

“Little notes, scrawled on half-sheets of paper, and letters, when he was away, page after page, intimate, their news. Her voice, echoing…

— Daphne du Maurier

Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short…

— Daphne du Maurier

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

— 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…

— Daphne du Maurier

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

— Daphne du Maurier

“And this then, that I am feeling now, is the hell that comes with love, the hell and the damnation and the…

— Daphne du Maurier