Quotes by : Daphne du Maurier

No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem....

I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious....

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes were....

Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.....

We can never go back again that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have....

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then....

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the....

...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on....

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.