Demelza Poldark Quotes

#1. Pursue that which is not meddlesome.

Lao-Tzu

#2. It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

Mark Twain

#3. You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

Jamie Zawinski

#4. Fools, their wisdom weak,
are their own enemies
as they go through life,
doing evil
that bears
bitter fruit.

Juan Mascaro

#5. I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

PJ Harvey

#6. Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

Rumi

#7. 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.

Winston Graham

#8. Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

Winston Graham

#9. ...are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?

Winston Graham

#10. The heat of his sweet breath mixing with hers, his scent filling her lungs, was like a drug made from concentrated sin.

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#11. Love is not a possession to hoard. You give it away. It's a blessing and a balm.

Winston Graham

#12. Despair covered me like a Klingon invisibility cloak.

Lilith Darville

#13. 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.

Winston Graham

#14. Stuff me in a tutu and let's screen experimental videos all day.

Sam Lipsyte

#15. His instincts should have warned him sooner than they had, but thanks to his agimortus, he'd been hobbled like a brood mare waiting to be mounted by a randy stallion

Larissa Ione

#16. He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels

Henri Michaux