All Daphne du Maurier Quotes
- Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others,… Accept
- When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. First Person
- We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and the cracked mirror… Cracked
- What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?… Book
- People who travel are always fugitives. Fugitives
- Life and death do not wait for legal action. Action
- Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a… Alone
- All autobiography is self-indulgent. All
- Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. Judging
- Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Happiness
- Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. Belief
- Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or… America
- Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Dreamt
- Come and see us if you feel like it,' she said. 'I always expect people to ask themselves. Life is too short to send out… Always Expect
- I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides… Adversity
- I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may… Burden
- ...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all… All
- If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then,… All
- We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and… Behind
- If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand. Ale