184 Quotes by Daphne Du Maurier

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

…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.

...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.

If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

Dead men tell no tales, Mary.

Because I want to; because I must; because now and forever more this is where I belong to be.

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.

He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.

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.