Demelza Quotes

#1. I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

Winston Graham

#2. 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.

Winston Graham

#3. 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

#4. 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.

Winston Graham

#5. Demelza said: 'It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.' Ross

Winston Graham

#6. 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.

Winston Graham

#7. The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16)

Confucius

#8. After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

David Ben-Gurion

#9. Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.

Cynthia Heimel

#10. 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

#11. That's what happens with your first love. It carves a hole in the muscle and fiber, so that you have no choice but to wear it like a birthmark.

Rebecca Tsaros Dickson

#12. We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.

Klaus Schwab

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

Winston Graham

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

Winston Graham

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

Winston Graham

#16. Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

Keith Hernandez

#17. The idealist and dreamer will stubbornly go down with the ship. The serial innovator grabs the rudder and changes course.

Larry Osborne

#18. Do you love her?"
"Yeah."
"And that's a bad thing?"
"Because relationships end."
"What?"
"If I don't tell Aly how I feel, we'll stay friends. I can handle that. Friendship is real. It lasts, and it's safe."
"Loving someone, being loved ... it's worth the pain of losing them.

Rachel Harris

#19. I do what I want, when I want, how I want, and because of that, it has taken me so long to grow into an adult human being.

Michelle Rodriguez

#20. When you can classify something, it helps pin it down into a thing you can handle instead of a nameless dread.

Megan Kearney

#21. All Near knows." "All Near forgets." "Or tries.

Victoria Schwab

#22. My heart swelled in my chest, like a froth of bubbles begging to be released.

Demelza Carlton