Rebecca Quotes

“How young and inexperienced I must have seemed, and how I felt it, too. One was too sensitive, too raw, there were thorns and pin-pricks in so many words that in reality fell lightly on air.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“...painting of the house, crudely done of course and highly colored, but even those faults could not destroy the symmetry of the building, the wide stone steps before the terrace, the green lawns stretching into the sea”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I am very different that that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with awn intense desire to please”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“... kindness, 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, Rebecca

“I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“Je me sentais vaguement épuisée et me demandai, un peu choquée de ma cruauté, pourquoi les personnes âgées étaient si exténuantes. Pires que les jeunes enfants [...] car il fallait se montrer poli.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“I wondered if it was the same in every home, this feeling of exuberance when visitors had gone.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

“If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca