- [the new Mrs. de Winter wants to dispose of Rebecca's letters]
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: I want you to get rid of all these things.
- Mrs. Danvers: But these are Mrs. de Winter's things.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: *I* am Mrs. de Winter now!
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: She's spoiled, Mr. de Winter. That's her trouble. Most girls would give their eyes for the chance to see Monte!
- Maxim de Winter: Wouldn't that rather defeat the purpose?
- Mrs. Danvers: [as the second Mrs. de Winter runs into the room] I watched you go down just as I watched her a year ago. Even in the same dress you couldn't compare.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: You knew it! You knew that she wore it, and yet you deliberately suggested I wear it. Why do you hate me? What have I done to you that you should ever hate me so?
- Mrs. Danvers: You tried to take her place. You let him marry you. I've seen his face - his eyes. They're the same as those first weeks after she died. I used to listen to him, walking up and down, up and down, all night long, night after night, thinking of her, suffering torture because he lost her!
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [turning away in shame and shock] I don't want to know, I don't want to know!
- Mrs. Danvers: [moving towards her] You thought you could be Mrs. de Winter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers! But she's too strong for you. You can't fight her - no one ever got the better of her. Never, never. She was beaten in the end, but it wasn't a man, it wasn't a woman. It was the sea!
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [collapsing in tears on the bed] Oh, stop it! Stop it! Oh, stop it!
- Mrs. Danvers: [opening the shutters] You're overwrought, madam. I've opened a window for you. A little air will do you good.
- [as the second Mrs. de Winter gets up and walks toward the window]
- Mrs. Danvers: Why don't you go? Why don't you leave Manderley? He doesn't need you... he's got his memories. He doesn't love you, he wants to be alone again with her. You've nothing to stay for. You've nothing to live for really, have you?
- [softly, almost hypnotically]
- Mrs. Danvers: Look down there. It's easy, isn't it? Why don't you? Why don't you? Go on. Go on. Don't be afraid...
- Maxim de Winter: I can't forget what it's done to you. I've been thinking of nothing else since it happened. It's gone forever, that funny young, lost look I loved won't ever come back. I killed that when I told you about Rebecca. It's gone. In a few hours, you've grown so much older.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: Oh, Maxim, Maxim.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [about her father] He had a theory that if you should find one perfect thing, or place or person, you should stick to it. Do you think that's very silly?
- Maxim de Winter: No, I'm a firm believer in that myself.
- Mrs. Danvers: [brings out a negligee from under the bedcovers] Did you ever see anything so delicate?
- [motions the second Mrs. de Winter over]
- Mrs. Danvers: Look, you can see my hand through it!
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: It's not too late. You're not to say that. I love you more than anything in the world. Oh, please, Maxim, kiss me, please.
- Maxim de Winter: No, it's no use. It's too late.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: We can't lose each other now. We must be together always, with no secrets, no shadows.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: I've been thinking...
- Maxim de Winter: Now why would you want to go and do that for?
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: How could I even ask you to love me when I knew you loved Rebecca still?
- Maxim de Winter: What are you talking about? What do you mean?
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: Whenever you touched me, I knew you were comparing me with Rebecca. Whenever you looked at me or spoke to me or walked with me in the garden, I knew you were thinking, "This I did with Rebecca," and this and this. Oh, it's true, isn't it?
- Maxim de Winter: You thought I loved Rebecca? You thought that? I hated her!
- Maxim de Winter: "I'll make a bargain with you," she said. "You'd look rather foolish trying to divorce me now after four days of marriage. So I'll play the part of a devoted wife, mistress of your precious Manderley. I'll make it the most famous showplace in England if you like. Then, people will visit us and envy us, and say we're the luckiest, happiest, couple in the country. What a grand show it will be! What a triumph!"
- Mrs. Danvers: [just as the second Mrs. de Winter reaches for the door] You wouldn't think she'd been gone so long, would you? Sometimes, when I walk along the corridor, I fancy I hear her just behind me. That quick light step, I couldn't mistake it anywhere. It's not only in this room, it's in all the rooms in the house. I can almost hear it now.
- [turns to the petrified second Mrs. de Winter]
- Mrs. Danvers: Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [sobbing] N-no, I don't believe it.
- Mrs. Danvers: Sometimes, I wonder if she doesn't come back here to Manderley, to watch you and Mr. de Winter together. You look tired. Why don't you stay here a while and rest, and listen to the sea? It's so soothing. Listen to it.
- [turning away towards the window as the second Mrs. de Winter slips out the door]
- Mrs. Danvers: Listen. Listen to the sea.
- Mrs. Danvers: Oh, you've moved her brush, haven't you?
- [moves it slightly]
- Mrs. Danvers: There, that's better. Just as she always laid it down. "Come on, Danny, hair drill," she would say.
- [picks up the brush and goes through the motions of combing the second Mrs. De Winter's hair, without actually touching it]
- Mrs. Danvers: And I'd stand behind her like this and brush away for twenty minutes at a time.
- [lays down the brush and looks at the portrait of Maxim]
- Mrs. Danvers: Then she would say, "Good night, Danny," and step into her bed.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [after hearing about Rebecca's engagement with Maxim] So this is what's been happening during my illness. Tennis lessons, my foot.
- Maxim de Winter: I knew where Rebecca's body was, lying on that cabin floor on the bottom of the sea.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: How did you know, Maxim?
- Maxim de Winter: Because - I put it there.
- Maxim de Winter: [greeting guests arriving at his Costume Ball] What's the idea? Adam and Eve?
- Beatrice Lacy: Oh, Maxim, don't be disgusting.
- Major Giles Lacy: Strong man, Old man.
- [urging Mrs. de Winter to jump out the window and end her misery]
- Mrs. Danvers: Go ahead. Jump. He never loved you, so why go on living? Jump and it will all be over...
- Jack Favell: You know, old boy, I have a strong feeling... that before the day is out, somebody's going to make use of that... rather expressive, though somewhat old-fashioned term ''foul play.''
- Policeman: This your car, sir ?
- Jack Favell: Yes.
- Policeman: Will you be going soon ?
- [Alfred Hitchcock walks past on the street]
- Policeman: This isn't a parking place, you know.
- Jack Favell: Oh, isn't it? Well, people are entitled to leave their cars outside if they want to. It's a pity some of you fellows haven't anything better to do!
- Colonel Julyan: Well, let me tell you something, Favell: blackmail isn't so pure nor so simple, and it brings a great deal of trouble to a great many people before it's through, and we know how to deal with it in our part of the world. And, sometimes, the blackmailer finds *himself* in jail at the end of it!
- Maxim de Winter: [after he has asked her to marry him] My suggestion doesn't seem to have gone at all well, i'm sorry.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: Oh, but you don't understand! It's that I... well I'm not the sort of person men marry.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: I suppose I have to hand it to you for a fast worker. How did you manage it? Still waters certainly run deep. Tell me, have you been doing anything you shouldn't?
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [opening voice-over] Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive, and for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me. Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. The drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning as it had always done. But as I advanced, I was aware that a change had come upon it. Nature had come into her own again, and little by little had encroached upon the drive with long, tenacious fingers. On and on wound the poor thread that had once been our drive, and finally there was Manderley. Manderley - secretive and silent. Time could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls. Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, and suddenly it seemed to me that light came from the windows. And then a cloud came upon the moon and hovered an instant like a dark hand before a face. The illusion went with it. I looked upon a desolate shell with no whisper of the past about its staring walls. We can never go back to Manderley again. That much is certain. But sometimes, in my dreams I do go back to the strange days of my life, which began for me in the South of France.
- Frank Crawley: [to the Second Mrs. de Winter] We none of us want to live in the past, Maxim least of all. It's up to you, you know, to lead us away from it.
- Maxim de Winter: [to his wife at breakfast] Have a look at "The Times"; there's a thrilling article on what's the matter with English cricket!
- Maxim de Winter: Oh, I was carried away by her, enchanted by her, as everyone was. And when I was married, I was told I was the luckiest man in the world. She was so lovely, so accomplished, so amusing. She's got the three things that really matter in a wife, everyone said. Breeding, brains and beauty. And I believed them, completely. But I never had a moment's happiness with her. She was incapable of love or tenderness or decency.
- Beatrice Lacy: How do you get along with Mrs. Danvers?
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: Well, I - I've never met anyone quite like her before.
- Major Giles Lacy: You mean she scares you? She's not exactly an oil painting, is she?
- [chuckles]
- Beatrice Lacy: Giles, you're very much in the way here. Go somewhere else.
- Jack Favell: [to the Second Mrs. de Winter] Fare thee well. Oh, and I know what was wrong with that introduction. Danny didn't tell you, did she? I am Rebecca's favorite cousin. Toodle-oo.
- Jack Favell: Come on, out with it! Tell me what else would a woman of her class be doing in a dump like this?
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [before their marriage] Oh, I wish I were a woman of 36, dressed in black satin with a string of pearls!
- Maxim de Winter: [chuckles] You wouldn't be here with me if you were.
- Maxim de Winter: [to the Second Mrs. de Winter] Remember the precipice? I frightened you, didn't I? You thought I was mad. Perhaps I was. Perhaps I am mad. It wouldn't make for sanity, would it, living with the devil?
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: I remember when I was younger there was a well-known writer who used to dart down the back way whenever he saw me coming. I suppose he was in love with me and wasn't quite sure of himself. Well, c'est la vie.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: It's so nice to run into you here, just when I was beginning to despair of finding any old friends here in Monte. But do sit down and have some coffee.
- [to her traveling companion, the future Mrs. de Winter]
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: Mr. de Winter is having some coffee with me. Ask that stupid waiter for another cup.
- Maxim de Winter: I'm afraid I must contradict you. You shall both have coffee with me.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [to her companion returning from a planned tennis lesson] You got on rather well with him, didn't you? That pro must have been teaching you other things than tennis.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [before her marriage to Mr. de Winter] I thought I'd take a tennis lesson.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: I see. I suppose you've had a look at the pro, and he's desperately handsome and you've conceived a schoolgirl crush on him. All right, go ahead. Make the most of it.
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: [before their marriage] Would you please tell me, Mr. de Winter, why you asked me to come out with you? Oh, it's obvious that you want to be kind, but why do you choose me for your charity?
- Maxim de Winter: I asked you to come out with me because I wanted your company. You've blotted out the past for me more than all the bright lights of Monte Carlo. But if you think I just asked you out of kindness or charity, you can leave the car now and find your own way home.
- Mrs. Danvers: That room in the west wing I was telling you about is there through that door. It's not used now. It's the most beautiful room in the house - the only one that looks down across the lawns to the sea. It was Mrs. de Winter's room.
- Maxim de Winter: I hate the place. If you had my memories, you wouldn't go there or even think about it!
- The Second Mrs. de Winter: Wasn't she afraid to go out like that alone?
- Frank Crawley: She wasn't afraid of anything.
- Maxim de Winter: Rebecca has won. Her shadow has been between us all the time, keeping us from one another.
- Maxim de Winter: I'm afraid I cling to the old motto: "He travels fastest who travels alone." Perhaps you've not heard of it. Good night.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: Are you playing the tables much here at Monte?
- Maxim de Winter: No, I'm afraid that sort of thing ceased to amuse me years ago.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: I can well understand that. As for me, if I had a home like Manderley, I should certainly never come to Monte. I hear it's one of the biggest places in that part of the country and you just can't beat it for beauty.
- Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: I'll never come to Monte Carlo out of season again. Not a single well-known personality in the hotel.
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