Top 100 Winston Graham Quotes
#1. Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.
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#2. In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That
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#3. It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.
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#4. Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.
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#5. we can't alter the world, we can only adapt ourselves to it.
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#6. inclined his head and moved off slowly across the beach. Tbe captain
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#7. Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.
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#8. People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.
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#9. I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.
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#10. When a person is as happy as she was that summer, it is hard for others to be unaffected, and after a time the atmosphere she created began to have its effect on all in the house.
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#11. Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.
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#12. The acme of futility was to regret a pleasure that was past, and he had no intention of doing so.
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#15. Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.
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#16. Music, she thought, perhaps could be a continuing process, like life, a shedding of one skin as fast as another grew. Instead every tune seemed to exist with its notes firmly rooted in an event or an emotion or a period of time.
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#17. For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.
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#18. There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The
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#19. showed where the ancient pewter teapot had leaked. At the other end was a scattering of crumbs left by the
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#20. Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.
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#21. An hour before dawn they went down to the cove, following the bubble of the stream and the descending combe, with a glowworm here and there green-lit like a jewel in the dark.
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#22. Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.
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#23. much in it,' said Paul, pushing the broadsheet across. 'You don't ask me
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#24. I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.
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#25. Someone - a Latin poet - had defined eternity as no more than this: to hold and possess the whole fullness of life in one moment, there and then, past and present and to come.
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#26. It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...
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#27. They are all sentimentalists at heart, the Poldarks, Verity thought, and she realized suddenly for the first time that it was a dangerous trait, far more dangerous than any cynicism.
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#29. His was not an easy face to read, and no one could have told that in the past half hour he had suffered the worst knock of his life. Except that he no longer whistled into the wind or talked to his irritable mare, there was nothing to show.
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#30. Either you trust a man and give him authority to carry out his treatment or you do not. When it goes well you are happy that you did so. When it goes ill you think, if only . . .
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#31. their stay when it was to take place with full formality.
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#33. There were no tears in her. The wound went too deep, or she was not so constituted to give way to it. Hers would be the perpetual ache of loss and loneliness, slowly dulled with time until it became a part of her character, a faint sourness tinged with withered pride.
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#35. In order to destroy this system which we so much detest we are creating conditions over here which run contrary to our dearest p-principles.
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#36. Lazy in everything," said Ross, "but the search for excuses. Like two old pigs in their sty and as slow to move from their own patch of filth." Prudie
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#37. If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.
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#38. These days I often have a struggle not to feel inferior to you, that is in your judgment of human beings.' 'I don't think I have any judgment, at least not to be proud of. But perhaps I am nearer the earth than you. Like Garrick, I can smell a friend.
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#39. ...in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.
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#40. If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.
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#41. In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.
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#42. The book from which you take your teaching, Dr. Halse, says that man shall not live by bread alone. These days you're asking men to live without even bread.
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#43. I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.
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#44. Strange sometimes how easy bitter words came, how hard the kind ones.
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#45. through all the monotony and the splendor of life.
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#46. I am not a good pleader', he said; 'being too infernal conscious of my own dignity. The dignified fool, Demelza, gets nowhere beside the suave flattering rogue.
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#47. He found, quite to his surprise, that he was happy. Not merely happy in Demelza's happiness but in himself. He couldn't think why. The condition just existed within him.
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#49. When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
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#50. Qualified help was weak and timid. Either you come out dead against the attachment or else help without reservation, without giving the impression of reluctance and disapproval.
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#51. I'm afraid they would droop. See, they're drooping already. Bluebells are like that.
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#52. Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.
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#53. The case is closed, Mr. Poldark. You will kindly step down." "Otherwise," said Dr. Halse, "we will have you committed for contempt of court." Ross bowed slightly. "I can only assure you, sir, that such a committal would be a reading of my inmost thoughts.
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#54. ...are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?
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#55. His parents should be here soon. I shall feel happier when they are able to take the responsibility.
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#56. Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.
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#57. But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...
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#58. Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.
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#59. Love is not a possession to hoard. You give it away. It's a blessing and a balm.
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#60. The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace. He
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#62. He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.
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#63. Tedn't law. Tedn't right. Tedn't just. Tedn't sense. Tedn't friendly.
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#64. Autumn lingered on as if fond of its own perfection.
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#65. That's all that matters. The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and - and to love in return. People who haven't got it - or had it - don't believe that, but it's the truth.
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#66. Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music.
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#67. I think, sir,' said Demelza, 'that your apricot tart is about to be laced viz cream and rum, and you would do well to discover wezzer you can attempt zat.
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#68. If there are two feelings, then I don't think you can put them in separate compartments ever, because one is a part of the other and inseparable.
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#69. I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because you think you ought to, not because you really do.
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#70. No man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't desire....But every man wants his wife to be a woman that other men don't get.
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#71. feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.
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#72. People might think it lonely living on my own nearly all the time, but I never found it lonely. I always had plenty to think about, and anyway maybe I'm not so good on people.
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#73. I think you must have your feelings under a very good control. You turn them about and face them the way you want them to be. I wish I could do that. What's the secret?
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#74. It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.
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#75. Ross took a deep breath of the air, which was heavy with the smell of sea. He fancied he could hear the waves breaking.
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#76. Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?'
'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph.
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#77. His hands touched the cool skin of her back, Abruptly they slipped inside her frock and closed about her waist. She leaned her head back against his shoulder and he kissed her until the room went dark before her eyes.
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#78. All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.
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#79. I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?
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#80. I am enceinte, gravid, pregnant, in pup, call it what you will. No doubt there are as many names for the production of a child as for the act which initiates it.
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#81. The past is over, gone. What is to come doesn't exist yet. That's tomorrow! It's only now that can ever be, at any moment. And at this moment, now, we are alive--and together. We can't ask more. There isn't any more to ask.
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#83. Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things.
Such as this, I suppose
Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love
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#84. Refreshment is the remedy for all manner of embarrassments.
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#85. I wish your husband well and hope he'll come home again to domestic bliss.
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#86. The waves were shadows, snakes under a quilt, creeping in almost unseen until they emerged in milky ripples at the water's edge.
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#87. I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
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#88. The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and - and to love in return.
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#89. Life is like--like one of those hobby-horses you ride at a fair--round and round you go enjoying every moment and then the--then the music stops...
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#90. Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part
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#94. He was a man of moods, yet he was her constant, something unchanging, infinitely reliable, the pivot of her life. There could never be anyone else. Without him she would not be more than half alive.
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#95. Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.' Ross
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#96. ...I mistrust folk who are always bringing God or Christ into their conversations. If it is not an actual blasphemy it is at least a presumption. It smacks of self-conceit, doesn't it?
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#97. Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
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#99. All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
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#100. ...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.
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