"I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked……" — Daphne du Maurier
"I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite."
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89 Quotes by Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier has 89 quotes on this site.
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Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves,…
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my…
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What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at…
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People who travel are always fugitives.
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Life and death do not wait for legal action.
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Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to…
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean…
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More Callous Quotes
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
— Charlotte Bronte
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We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and…
— Cesar Chavez
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In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country;…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot…
— Richard Dawkins
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And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think I'm callous, arrogant.…
— Eric Dickerson
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...their callous indifference to the plight of children streaming across the border, fleeing horrific circumstances in their own country. Republicans…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do.…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism…
— John Berger
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I don't want to sound callous. I mean, even if I have nothing to offer, that doesn't matter, because that…
— Richard Dawkins
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The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human…
— Gloria Steinem
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. . . As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in…
— Nathaniel Altman
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