Top 100 Daphne Quotes
#1. It's about time you guys got here,' Oliver quipped. 'Alexei and I were starting to think you'd gotten lost.' Daphne sniffed. 'Please. We weren't lost. We were shopping.' 'That doesn't make it any better,' Oliver retorted. In fact, I'd say that makes it worse.
Jennifer Estep
#2. Daphne felt something wild and wicked take hold. "Let's walk in the garden," she said softly.
"We can't."
"We must."
"We can't.
Julia Quinn
#3. Daphne, whatever you could think of in your wildest imagination, there is a game for it and probably has been for a thousand years.' He pulled off his shirt and advanced on her. 'For example, there is the lovely lady taken up against the wall game. I'll show you how it is played.
Madeline Hunter
#4. You're an absolute genius! I'm the best Daphne ever!"
"And so humble,too.
Kiersten White
#5. Fernanda Andrade and Daphne Zuniga are two beautiful, inspiring women I met and became very close with while living in L.A. Daphne's father is from Central America, and Fernanda is originally from Brazil.
Torrey DeVitto
#6. Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache - the kind that one could almost - but never quite - ignore.
Julia Quinn
#7. So what's with the crown?" Daphne asked.
Puck's eyes grew wide. "I'm the Prince of Fairies. Emperor of Pixies, Brownies, Hobgoblins, Elves and Gnomes. King of Tricksters and Prank-Players, spiritual leader to juvenile delinquents, layabouts and bad apples.
Michael Buckley
#9. Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.
Rita Ora
#10. Maybe one of the monsters ate him," Daphne whimpered.
"That would be awesome," Puck said.
Sabrina flashed him an angry look.
"Awesome in a terrible, heartbreakingly tragic way," Puck continued.
Michael Buckley
#11. The fabled origin of the laurel is this. Daphne, daughter of the river Peneus, offended by the persecutions of Apollo, implored succour of the gods, who changed her into a laurel tree. Apollo crowned his head with the leaves and ordered that forever after, the tree should be sacred to him.
Dorothea Dix
#13. Daphne: You're the only person who really knows me. The only person I feel I truly know myself
Maxon: Knowledge isn't love..
Kiera Cass
#14. saying Daphne was a worrywart was like saying soccer players' legs were a thing of jaw-dropping, panty-melting goodness. It was just a fact of life.
Avery Flynn
#15. Negativity is mind pollution!
Daphne Blake from Be Cool Scooby-Doo!
Hanna-Barbera
#16. No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
Alexander Pope
#17. Free will isn't quite the same as freedom" -Daphne Leander
Lauren DeStefano
#18. But, Dad! We can't leave. Uncle Jake is hurt!" Daphne said. "Besides, that's Pinocchio. I want to get an autograph.
Michael Buckley
#19. I didn't think he would, but I do believe I was right to ask for his discretion.' 'Thank you, Lady Daphne,' Wilson
Barbara Taylor Bradford
#20. Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.
Jonathan Swift
#21. It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.
Alan Bradley
#22. The human heart must be a strong and resilient thing, Daphne decided when she awoke the following morning. She was surprised to find that she was no longer in the throes of wrenching heartbreak and pain. Instead, in a strange way, she felt as if she had been reborn.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#23. Love should be a staple in our history book. Wasn't it an act of love when the god of the sky chose to keep us? Isn't love what makes living bearable, and unbearable?" -Daphne Leander
Lauren DeStefano
#24. The humans who love us never last long. Scions are tragedy magnets. It's safer for them if we leave before the trouble starts." ~ Daphne
Josephine Angelini
#25. The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.
William Shakespeare
#26. You asked me about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to be anywhere but with you.
Brenna Yovanoff
#27. Tonight," he whispered, his voice hoarse and hot in her ear, "I will make you mine."
-Simon to Daphne
Julia Quinn
#28. Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Craig Venter
#29. When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne
Karen Rose
#30. Is independence so bad for one?" asked Daphne.
"Nothing worse," said Harriet. "It gives you a wonderful conceit of yourself.
Elizabeth Goudge
#31. I didn't do it,' he insisted.
'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.
'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?
Michael Buckley
#32. Did you know I have always suspected that men were idiots," Daphne ground out, "but I was never positive until today.
Julia Quinn
#33. All that remained of Daphne was her shining loveliness
Ovid
#34. [ ... ]Since then it's been passed from mother to daughter, along with The Face."
"The Face?" Lucas asked.
"That Launched a Thousand Ships," Daphne said, repeating the title automatically. "It's our curse.
Josephine Angelini
#35. Daphne came in with her arms full of books, and her eyes blazing like two poisoned moons. How'd you like the mess St. John?
Helen Oyeyemi
#36. The parts of Shaggy, Daphne, Freddie and Velma played by Linda Cardellini are all iconic and not really personality-driven, so it doesn't really matter who plays those roles, ... But it is true that Matthew nailed it.
Charles Roven
#37. No one judging her by her appearance would dream that Miss Daphne Wade had a rather salacious habit of staring at her employer's naked chest whenever she had the chance, although most women would have agreed that Anthony Courtland, Duke of Tremore, had a chest worth looking at.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#38. I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more.
Nelson Mandela
#39. Do you mind? Just drape your arm around her shoulder. That's it. Yes this is good, Mr.Henshaw. Getting your picture taken with Daphne is a great way to introduce you to our set. Welcome to Santa Lucia!
Barbara Jean Coast
#40. Well, I'll be," she said mischievously. "You might just be a nice person after all."
"I'm hardly nice," he scoffed.
"Perhaps, but you're hardly cruel, either."
-Daphne & Simon
Julia Quinn
#41. Fred always goes with Daphne and Shaggy always sticks with Velma."
"Well then, in that case, I'm Scooby.
Peter Clines
#42. I ended up on 'Heroes' because I auditioned for the part like everybody else, but the writers were writing the role of Daphne, which was originally called Joy.
Brea Grant
#43. I made a mental note to watch Daphne at all times. I would not let her become zombie chow.
Shana Festa
#44. Still, I couldn't help looking at Daphne in morbid satisfaction. 'What did I tell you? Our first double date? Officially ruined.
Jennifer Estep
#45. What we say, my child, has an impact on those around us. Words can spread darkness and hate or shed light and love. Don't misuse them, Daphne.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#46. I feel like a movie star," Daphne said as the girls hurried downstairs. "You look like a mental patient," Sabrina remarked.
Michael Buckley
#47. I love a woman in a tuxedo, or in a dress, who looks comfortable, relaxed, happy. I'd love to dress Daphne Guinness - she has exactly that attitude.
Stephane Rolland
#48. Elixirs. Pills. Specialists. Are they meant to help us, or to keep us compliant?" -Daphne Leander
Lauren DeStefano
#49. Sabrina suggested they burn their orange monkey sweaters and blue heart covered pants but Daphne refused. Granny took Sabrina aside and apologised for the outfit, saying that Mr. Canis might not have been the right choice to shop for girls. After all, he was colour-blind.
Michael Buckley
#50. Daphne's thought in Nation:
This was no time to go totally mad. You had to maintain standards.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Poor Dogger! That's what I thought, even though Daphne told me I should never say that about anyone: "It's not only condescending, it fails to take into account the future," she said.
Alan Bradley
#52. How did you know that we could get him to do whatever we want if we pretend he's in charge?" Sabrina asked Daphne.
"It's what I do with you" the little girl replied. "You two are exactly the same
Michael Buckley
#53. The food shortages required inventiveness ... Daphne showed me the difference it made if she placed plums in a green bowl or in a yellow bowl before she set them on the table.
Anne Michaels
#54. Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferrypot Landing anymore.
~Sabrina Grimm
Michael Buckley
#55. All right, baby," Daphne crooned.
"Talk to Mama and tell me all your secrets ...
Jennifer Estep
#56. Tetchily. She was fetching Daphne from Heathrow later; at least
Kate Morton
#57. Hey, are you okay?"he asked "Nickamedes told me what happened with Preston. He and the others were worried about you.
They're out looking for you, along with Daphne, Carson, and Oliver."I let out a bitter laugh."I must have really freaked them out if Nickamedes was worried about me.
Jennifer Estep
#58. In the eighth American-educational grade, Bruce Green fell dreadfully in love with a classmate who had the unlikely name of Mildred Bonk. The name was unlikely because if ever an eighth-grader looked like a Daphne Christianson or a Kimberly St.-Simone or something like that, it was Mildred Bonk.
David Foster Wallace
#59. Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.
Ashley Madekwe
#60. Save your sweet talk for later, Daphne. The garbage guys just drove up with the new Dumpster."
"Shut the lid after you climb in.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#61. The Velmas of the world do not intern at CNN, hope to be accepted at Columbia J-School after graduating NYU with honors, and go on to win Pulitzer Prizes by getting bogged down in relationship drama. That's a problem for the Daphnes of the world. Daphne, you bitch, you can't even drive the damn van.
Rachel Cohn
#62. I should explain - in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising - that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know her well enough to dispute it.
Sarah Caudwell
#63. My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.
Sarah Pinborough
#64. What can I say?" I grinned. I have a magic touch when it comes to animals."
Daphne snorted. "You're touched in the head is more like it.
Jennifer Estep
#65. To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day ... . I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.
Daphne Sheldrick
#68. The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running waters of the stream, and become one with the falling rain and the dank rich moss beneath our fee
Daphne Du Maurier
#69. Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.
Daphne Du Maurier
#71. Universities have come to realize that online is not a fad. The question is not whether to engage in this area but how to do it.
Daphne Koller
#72. The frightening truth about desire
it's on but
i don't know
whether i want
to be
her, fuck her
or borrow
her clothes.
Daphne Gottlieb
#73. The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.
Daphne Du Maurier
#74. That woman is hiding something!" she said.
"You think everyone's hiding something."
"And you would hug the devil if he gave you cookies.
Michael Buckley
#75. A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.
Daphne Oz
#76. You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But for you I should have left long ago, gone to Italy, and Greece, and further still perhaps. You have spared me all those wanderings.
Daphne Du Maurier
#77. For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.
Daphne Du Maurier
#78. It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, and everything in between has to bring you that. Or else what is the point?
Daphne Zuniga
#79. I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.
Daphne Guinness
#81. This car had the wings of Mercury, I thought, for higher yet we climbed, and dangerously fast, and the danger pleased me because it was new to me, because I was young.
Daphne Du Maurier
#82. There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.
Daphne Gottlieb
#83. From the very first, I knew that it would be so ... I smiled to myself, and said, That
and none other.
Daphne Du Maurier
#84. My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Daphne Zuniga
#85. There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.
Daphne Merkin
#86. I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.
Daphne Guinness
#87. Developing a diet that is healthful, balanced, and appropriate for your particular caloric needs is easy enough and is absolutely critical to establishing a healthful lifestyle that incorporates proper nutrition, adequate fitness, and mental resilience.
Daphne Oz
#88. I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.
Daphne Oz
#89. More than anything, having adventures with my siblings and spending time with my family and my husband make me happy.
Daphne Oz
#90. Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand.
Daphne Du Maurier
#91. But unlike people with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia, they are not going insane at all. They are, if anything, suddenly overly aware of reality and existence and of the ways in which their own experience is a distortion of a "normal" sense of a real self. Depersonalization,
Daphne Simeon
#92. When I think my hair needs a bit of help, I just glue another bit onto my head.
Daphne Guinness
#93. I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.
Daphne Koller
#94. 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 clash of thought or of opinion makes a barrier between us.
Daphne Du Maurier
#95. When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman's hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.
Daphne Du Maurier
#97. There was nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed.
Daphne Du Maurier
#98. Elizabeth Taylor was never told what to wear or paid to carry a certain handbag,
Daphne Guinness
#100. It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.
Daphne Kalotay
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