Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier
Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning DBEwas an English author and playwright...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 May 1907
farewell bye greetings
Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.
first-love time-and-love fever
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.
funny hilarious sweet
Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.
laughter real laughing
Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.
problem
The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
genius talent new-friends
I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.
thinking-of-you knowing waiting
I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.
dreamer enchanted
A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.
adversity giving growth
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.
paris giving atmosphere
there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.
sleep break-through routine
...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit.
travel
I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.
faults bears done
I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.
marriage men intuition
how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...