Daphne du Maurier

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#boredom

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#romantic

Living as we do in an age of noise and bluster, success is now measured accordingly. We must all be seen, and heard, and on the air. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#notoriety #success #age

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... ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#women #marriage

But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#immorality #music #art

Maxim's voice, clear and strong, "Will someone take my wife outside?She is going to faint. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#romantic

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#love #men #novel #short #short story

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#neither #nor #read #seen #should

When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#must #novel #person #writing

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

— Daphne du Maurier

#dropping #full #i #like #name