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I love the stillness of a room, after a party. The chairs are moved, the cushions disarranged, everything is there to show that people enjoyed themselves; and one comes back to the empty room happy that it's over, happy to relax and say, 'Now we are alone again. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over. -- Daphne Du Maurier
It's funny,' I noted in the diary, 'how often I seem to build a story around one sentence, nearly always the last one, too. The themes are a bit depressing but I just can't get rid of that. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. -- Daphne Du Maurier
And perhaps one day, in after years, someone would wander there and listen to the silence, as she had done, and catch the whisper of the dreams that she had dreamt there, in midsummer, under the hot sun and the white sky. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men. -- Daphne Du Maurier
But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen. -- Daphne Du Maurier
It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this -- Daphne Du Maurier
He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost in the labyrinth of his own unquiet thoughts that I did not exist. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Contentment is a state of mind and body when the two work in harmony, and there is no friction. The mind is at peace, and the body also. The two are sufficient to themselves. Happiness is elusive
coming perhaps once in a life-time
and approaching ectasy. -- 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 times, never entirely lost. -- 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 a liar. He stood for everything she feared and hated and despised; but she knew she could love him ... This was no choice made with the mind. -- Daphne Du Maurier
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work. -- Daphne Du Maurier
She had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her. -- Daphne Du Maurier
A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back. -- Daphne Du Maurier
When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman's hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe. -- 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 agony beyond all enduring, because after the beauty and the loveliness comes the sorrow and the pain. -- Daphne Du Maurier
There was a silence on the tors that belonged to another age; an age that is past and vanished as though it had never been, an age when man did not exist, but pagan footsteps trod upon the hills. And there was a stillness in the air, and a stranger, older peace, that was not the peace of God. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead -- Daphne Du Maurier
[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were stored in those little brains, behind the stabbing beaks, the piercing eyes, now giving them this instinct to destroy mankind with all the deft precision of machines. -- Daphne Du Maurier
It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone. -- Daphne Du Maurier
But the point is this Monsieur ... the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious. -- 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 a blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The sea, like a crinkled chart, spread to the horizon, and lapped the sharp outline of the coast, while the houses were white shells in a rounded grotto, pricked here and there by a great orange sun. -- Daphne Du Maurier
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 say. -- 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 early morning. -- Daphne Du Maurier
One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. -- Daphne Du Maurier
the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. -- 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
How pleasant,' Dona said, peeling her fruit; 'the rest of us can only run away from time to time, and however much we pretend to be free, we know it is only for a little while - our hands and our feet are tied. -- Daphne Du Maurier
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? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? -- Daphne Du Maurier
For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Writing every book is like a purge; at the end of it one is empty ... like a dry shell on the beach, waiting for the tide to come in again. -- Daphne Du Maurier
There was nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed. -- Daphne Du Maurier
It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil. -- Daphne Du Maurier
You understand now ... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding. -- Daphne Du Maurier
A bad workman blames his tools. -- Daphne Du Maurier
All autobiography is self-indulgent. -- Daphne Du Maurier
We're not meant for happiness, you and I. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. -- Daphne Du Maurier
She put the steaming mutton down in front and he smacked his lips 'they taught you something where you came from, anyway,' he said. 'I always say there's two things women ought to do by instinct, and cookin's one of 'em. -- 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 of them. -- Daphne Du Maurier
If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand. -- 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 endure it alone, we had to put up this show, this miserable, sham performance for the sake of all these people I did not know and did not want to see again. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I had build up false pictures in my mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. -- Daphne Du Maurier
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands. -- Daphne Du Maurier
A pleasantly situated hotel close to the sea, and chalets by the water's edge where one breakfasted. Clientele well-to-do, and although I count myself no snob I cannot abide paper bags and orange peel. ("Not After Midnight") -- Daphne Du Maurier
There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the gray stone shining in the moonlight of my dream ... -- Daphne Du Maurier
The feel of her own pillow, and of her own blankets reassured her. Both were familiar. And being tired was familiar too, it was a solid bodily ache, like the tiredness after too much jumping or cricket. -- Daphne Du Maurier
We only become aware of hot discomfort when others are made awkward for our sakes -- Daphne Du Maurier
You know,' she said, 'it's a good thing, now and again, to take stock of oneself in life. To see where one has gone wrong. I -- Daphne Du Maurier
I will shed no more tears, like a spoilt child. For whatever happens we have had what we have had. No one can take that from us. And I have been alive, who was never alive before. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood, feeling, as the poet did before me, that my companion would be with me through the nights and through the days and down the arches of the years, and I should never be rid of him. -- Daphne Du Maurier
She would have stood by Giles's side, and shaken hands with people, a smile on her face. I could not do that. I had not the pride, I had not the guts. I was badly bred. -- Daphne Du Maurier
But in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running waters of the stream, and become one with the falling rain and the dank rich moss beneath our fee -- Daphne Du Maurier
Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be. -- Daphne Du Maurier
This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Of course we have our moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity and, catching his smile, I know we are together, we march in unison, no clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us. -- Daphne Du Maurier
There's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere. -- Daphne Du Maurier
No person will ever get into my blood as a place can ... People and things pass away, but not places. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy. -- 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. Plenty to do, you know, plenty to do. There are flowers to be cut for the house, and letters to write, and the children to scold. -- Daphne Du Maurier
You're all wounded and hurt and torn inside. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. -- Daphne Du Maurier
When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Only a lover of animals will understand the sudden feeling of loss, of emptiness, and the intuitive bond which exists between man and dog, has always existed from the beginning and will, please God, continue to the end. -- 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 through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book.
And I had to call him Maxim. -- 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? If so, you're much mistaken. -- 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 devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman. -- Daphne Du Maurier
You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still perhaps. You have spared me all those wanderings. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday. -- Daphne Du Maurier
It's so much easier to think out vaguely in my head than to set it down in words. -- Daphne Du Maurier
She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live. -- Daphne Du Maurier
There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The visitors sat down, languid, and content to rest. Seecombe brought cake and wine. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees? -- Daphne Du Maurier
She's dearer than life itself, that's all I know. -- Daphne Du Maurier
You have only to look at his eyes. He's still in hell... -- Daphne Du Maurier
There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair -- Daphne Du Maurier
The only time I got into trouble was when I forged M's signature on the weekly report we had to take home every Friday and take back to school again signed by one of our parents. The reason I did so was that M happened to be out at the time and I thought I could save myself trouble. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. -- Daphne Du Maurier
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 something?"
"No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool. -- Daphne Du Maurier
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each other and, with a common grief, grow far apart. There must be something in the nature of love between a man and a woman that drove them to torment and suspicion. -- Daphne Du Maurier
This car had the wings of Mercury, I thought, for higher yet we climbed, and dangerously fast, and the danger pleased me because it was new to me, because I was young. -- Daphne Du Maurier
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 the wit and beauty in the world. -- Daphne Du Maurier
From the very first, I knew that it would be so ... I smiled to myself, and said, That
and none other. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I did so obediently, and waited for her approval. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Nature had come into her own again and, little by little, in her stealthy, insidious way had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. -- Daphne Du Maurier
He could see her planting violets on his grave, a solitary figure in a grey cloak. What a ghastly tragedy. A lump came to his throat. He became quite emotional thinking of his own death. He would have to write a poem about this.
from a Difference in Temperament -- Daphne Du Maurier
The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Resignation brings its own reward -- 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 to send out invitations. -- 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 thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe. -- Daphne Du Maurier
- because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire.. -- 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 uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality. -- Daphne Du Maurier
How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman ... -- Daphne Du Maurier
Why this man should love that woman, what queer chemical mix-up in our blood draws us to one another, who can tell? -- Daphne Du Maurier
I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me too many people wrote in England, too many people had ideas. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," she said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideals. Do you want some coffee? The saucepans have been unpacked, and -- Daphne Du Maurier
Did you never try," I asked, "to make some life of happiness?"
"Happiness was not in question," he said; "that went with you, a factor you refused to recognise. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I was aware of a sense of freedom, as though I had no responsibilities at all. -- Daphne Du Maurier
If it must be so, let's not weep nor complain If I have failed, or you, or life turned sullen. We have had these things, they do not come again, But the flag still flies and the city has not fallen." Humbert Wolfe -- Daphne Du Maurier
What degradation lay in being young. -- Daphne Du Maurier
But fate and circumstance had made me no more than a shadow in his life, a phantom of what might have been -- Daphne Du Maurier
Her dullness made her own punishment. -- Daphne Du Maurier
We change from the awakening questing creatures we were once, afire with wonder, and expectancy, and doubt, to persons of opinion and authority, our habits formed, our characters moulded in a pattern -- Daphne Du Maurier
I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. -- Daphne Du Maurier
reader is back in the -- Daphne Du Maurier
Oh, God, I though, this is like two people in a play, in a moment the curtain will come down, we shall bow to the audience, and go off to our dressing-rooms. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I glanced out of the window, and it was like turning the page of a photograph album. Those roof-tops and that sea were mine no more. They belonged to yesterday, to the past. -- 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
As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before. -- Daphne Du Maurier
In those days, before the First World War, young women did not use makeup. Anna was free of lipstick, and her gold hair was rolled in great coils over her ears. -- Daphne Du Maurier
The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons. -- Daphne Du Maurier
... you guessed that somewhere, in heaven knew what country and what guise, there was someone who was part of your body and your brain, and that without him you were lost, a straw blown by the wind. -- Daphne Du Maurier
My old hidden dreams that I thought buried for all time lie bare and naked to the day, just as the shells and the stones do on the sands -- Daphne Du Maurier
The routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Happy in his silence yet eager for his words. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Richard turned and saw me. And as he looked at me it was as if my whole heart moved over in my body and was mine no longer -- Daphne Du Maurier
Dead men tell no tales, Mary. -- 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 saucers, a sleepy cat licking his paws, a cyclamen in a pot on a windowsill putting forth new buds. -- Daphne Du Maurier
And through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace. -- Daphne Du Maurier
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 boat, to be alone. -- Daphne Du Maurier
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, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I don't mind. I like being alone. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I was like a little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect, and he kinder, and far more inaccessible. -- Daphne Du Maurier
People who travel are always fugitives. -- 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 him now. -- 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 the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Who can ever affirm, or deny that the houses which have sheltered us as children, or as adults, and our predecessors too, do not have embedded in their walls, one with the dust and cobwebs, one with the overlay of fresh wallpaper and paint, the imprint of what-has-been, the suffering, the joy? -- Daphne Du Maurier
Maxim's voice, clear and strong, Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint. -- Daphne Du Maurier
So you see, when war comes to one's village, one's doorstep, it isn't tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot. -- Daphne Du Maurier
A man's jealousy is like a child's, fitful and foolish, without depth. A woman's jealousy is adult, which is very different. -- Daphne Du Maurier
He's made his own hell and there's no one but himself to thank for it. -- 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 possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Mullioned windows reflecting the green lawns and the terrace. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Death should be different. It should be like bidding farewell to someone at a station before a long journey, but without the strain. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I had so identified myself with Rebecca that my own dull self did not exist, had never come to Manderley. I had gone back in thought and in person to the days that were gone. -- 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. -- Daphne Du Maurier
He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone. -- Daphne Du Maurier
There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed. -- Daphne Du Maurier
She laughed because she must, and because he made her; -- Daphne Du Maurier
You have blotted out the past for me, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy. -- Daphne Du Maurier
You had to endure something yourself before it touched you. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Life and death do not wait for legal action. -- Daphne Du Maurier
There are some women, Philip, good women very possibly, who through no fault of their own impel disaster. Whatever they touch, somehow turns to tragedy. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. -- Daphne Du Maurier
She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment -- Daphne Du Maurier
It was unlike anything I had ever known. I had no feeling, no pain. -- Daphne Du Maurier
I had never looked more youthful, I had never felt so old. -- Daphne Du Maurier
We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world. -- Daphne Du Maurier
With Rebecca we enter a world of dreams and daydreams, but they always threaten to tip over into nightmare. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now? -- Daphne Du Maurier
Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered. -- Daphne Du Maurier
You see,' she said, snapping the top, and walking down the stairs, 'you are so very different from Rebecca -- Daphne Du Maurier
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. -- Daphne Du Maurier
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear -- Daphne Du Maurier
It doesn't make for sanity, does it, living with the devil. -- Daphne Du Maurier
An empty house can be as lonely as a full hotel" he said at length."The trouble is that it is less impersonal. -- 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 you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five. -- Daphne Du Maurier
And, though there should be a world of difference between the smile of a man and the bared fangs of a wolf, with Joss Merlyn they were one and the same. -- Daphne Du Maurier
F we killed women for their tongues all men would be murderers. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Nat thought to himself that "they" were no doubt considering the problem at that very moment, but whatever "they" decided to do in London and the big cities would not help the people here, three hundred miles away. Each householder must look after his own. -- Daphne Du Maurier
He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone... -- Daphne Du Maurier
I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same (...) -- Daphne Du Maurier
And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural. -- 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, then the very knowledge that they belong to a past we have not known ourselves induces fancy. -- Daphne Du Maurier
Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. -- Daphne Du Maurier
