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Daphne du Maurier Quotes

Daphne du Maurier quotes

English Novelist, Writer May 13, 1907 – April 19, 1989

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as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced and ran upon the beaches. Then that same impulse to flight seized upon them too. Crying, whistling, calling, they skimmed the placid sea and left the shore. Make haste, make speed, hurry and begone; yet where, and to what purpose? The restless urge of autumn, unsatisfying, sad, had put a spell upon them and they must flock, and wheel, and cry; they must spill... 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
Daphne du Maurier quote: "She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had..."
She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of..."
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "We're not meant for happiness, you and I."
We're not meant for happiness, you and I. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways."
He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways. Daphne du Maurier
The experts are right, he thought. Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here by boat to peer down into the waters, and they will see pillars and columns and marble far, far beneath them, slime and mud uncovering for brief moments a lost underworld of stone. Their heels made a ringing sound on the pavement and the rain splashed from the gutterings above. A fine ending to an evening that had started with brave hope, with innocence. ("Don't Look Now") 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
Daphne du Maurier quote: "I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius..."
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world."
When she smiled it was as though she embraced the world. Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier quote: "From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to..."
From the very first, I knew that it would be so...I smiled to myself, and said, "That -- and none other. 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
The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, and Roger said that of course there must be more sand because of under the sea; in every ocean all over the world there would be sand, if you looked deep down. But there could be grass too, argued Deborah, a waving grass, a grass that nobody had ever seen, and the colour of that ocean grass would be darker than any grass on the surface of the world, in fields or prairies or people's gardens in... Daphne du Maurier
It was then that Maxim looked at me. He looked at me for the first time that evening. And in his eyes i read the message of farewell. It was as though he leant against the side of a ship, and i stood below him on the quay. There would be other people touching his shoulder, and touching mine, but we would not see them. Nor would we speak or call to one another, for the wind and the distance would carry away the sound of our voices. But i should see his eyes and he would se mine before the ship... 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

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