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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
The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men.
— 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
She had contemplated life so long it had become indifferent to her.
— Daphne Du Maurier
He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways.
— Daphne Du Maurier
There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.
— 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
It was unlike anything I had ever known. I had no feeling, no pain.
— 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
There was nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed.
— 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
I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
— 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
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
I had never looked more youthful, I had never felt so old.
— 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
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
— Daphne Du Maurier
You have only to look at his eyes. He's still in hell...
— 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
the rank and melancholy smell of charred wet wood and sodden leaves coming towards me on a wisp of air.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
— Daphne Du Maurier
A bad workman blames his tools.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.
— 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
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
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
Resignation brings its own reward
— 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
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
The house was a sepulcher, our fear and suffering lay buried in the ruins. There would be no resurrection.
— 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
Happy in his silence yet eager for his words.
— Daphne Du Maurier
She laughed because she must, and because he made her;
— Daphne Du Maurier
Life and death do not wait for legal action.
— Daphne Du Maurier
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.
— Daphne Du Maurier
But in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. They can be my secret indulgence.
— 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
Anger and jealousy were things that could be conquered.
— 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
It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.
— 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
- because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..
— Daphne Du Maurier
The inevitable lorgnette, the enemy to other people's privacy.
— 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
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
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
Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear
— Daphne Du Maurier
She's dearer than life itself, that's all I know.
— 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
Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.
— Daphne Du Maurier
I could fight the living but I could not fight the dead
— 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
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
People who travel are always fugitives.
— Daphne Du Maurier
You're all wounded and hurt and torn inside.
— Daphne Du Maurier
A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!
— George Du Maurier
The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
— 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 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
You understand now ... how simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.
— Daphne Du Maurier
The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets - a vicious circle.
— George Du Maurier
I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.
— 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
I don't mind. I like being alone.
— Daphne Du Maurier
One of my favorite first sentences of abook is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — 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
I was aware of a sense of freedom, as though I had no responsibilities at all.
— Daphne Du Maurier
The visitors sat down, languid, and content to rest. Seecombe brought cake and wine.
— 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
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
— Daphne Du Maurier
An apple is an excellent thing until you have tried a peach. — George Du Maurier
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
— Daphne Du Maurier
And he went on eating his marmalade as though everything were natural.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?
— George Du Maurier
With Rebecca we enter a world of dreams and daydreams, but they always threaten to tip over into nightmare.
— 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
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
What degradation lay in being young.
— 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
Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?
— Daphne Du Maurier
She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment
— 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
I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
— Daphne Du Maurier
I did so obediently, and waited for her approval.
— 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
You have blotted out the past for me, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Dead men tell no tales, Mary.
— Daphne Du Maurier
He was my secret property. Preserved for me alone...
— Daphne Du Maurier
She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.
— 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
Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
— Daphne Du Maurier
It was disturbing, like an enchanted place. I had not thought it could be as beautiful as this
— Daphne Du Maurier
Watch that boy. He's going to startle somebody someday.
— Daphne Du Maurier
We only become aware of hot discomfort when others are made awkward for our sakes
— Daphne Du Maurier
You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Last night I dreamed I went to Manderley again.
— Daphne Du Maurier
