Quotes by Daphne du Maurier

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.

Giving

Silence

Together

…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.

Husband

Men

World

…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.

Country

Heaven

Wind

[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.

Animal

Eye

Memories

A bad workman blames his tools.

Blame

Entrepreneurship

Tools

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Autobiography

Book

Self

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.

Brain

Echoes

Past

And I don’t like books which are full of name dropping.

Book

Name Dropping

Names

But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. 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 flash of thought or opinion makes a barrier between us.

Giving

Mind

Running

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Book

Luxury

Simple

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Angel

Animal

Apples

Atmosphere

Autobiography

Bears

Believe

Blame

Blood

Book

Brain

Bridges

Brother

Bye

Cake

Care

Chance

Children

Choices Made

Common

Country

Dark

Determination

Devil

Done

Echoes

Entrepreneurship

Eye

Fall

Farewell

Faults

Fear

Feel Better

Fiction

Fire

Forever

Funny

Giving

Greetings

Happiness

Heaven

Hero

Hilarious

Hills

Home

Horse

House

Husband

Inferiority

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Quotes by Daphne du Maurier

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.

…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.

…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.

[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.

A bad workman blames his tools.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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.

And I don’t like books which are full of name dropping.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

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