Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me." "Do you mean you want a secretary or something?" "No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.

I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.

Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

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

Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.

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.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.