Poldark Quotes

#1. 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.

Winston Graham

#2. 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.

Winston Graham

#3. 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.

Winston Graham

#4. Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Winston Graham

#6. Tedn't law. Tedn't right. Tedn't just. Tedn't sense. Tedn't friendly.

Winston Graham

#7. 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.

Winston Graham

#8. I'm still younger than Jagger ... Most people are.

David Bowie

#9. Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose.

Winston Graham

#10. They may call your victories, "lucky"...
They may mock your failures...
They may laugh at your heartache...
But still, they will never be happy.
This is the cyclical emptiness of the hater mindset.

Steve Maraboli

#11. I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

Winston Graham

#12. 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.

Winston Graham

#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. Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.

Winston Graham

#15. It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Terry McMillan

#16. The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and - and to love in return.

Winston Graham

#17. 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...

Winston Graham

#18. We are all children that need nurturing, love and care. So give your inner child that nurturing and love, give yourself back the joy of preparing healthy and nutritious meals, joy of experiencing food without TV, reading, working, rush.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#19. Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

Tom Hiddleston

#20. Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.

Winston Graham

#21. People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.

Winston Graham

#22. A question may be asked, 'Will mothers have their children in eternity?' Yes! Yes! Mothers, you shall have your children.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#23. 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.

Winston Graham

#24. In Iran, as in all developing countries, they wanted to copy the outside world, without knowing what was good for our own country.

Farah Diba

#25. 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...

Winston Graham

#26. I was too concerned with my own dignity. Grovelling and compliments were the order of the day. I made the mistake of trying to teach them their business.

Debbie Horsfield

#27. It's hard to deny talent. If you're good, you're good.

Tyler Hilton

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

Winston Graham

#29. If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.

Winston Graham

#30. ...in the best society hardly anyone can be certain who their father is.

Winston Graham

#31. Ketchup is great on hamburgers, but if some gets on your shirt, that does not make your shirt also a hamburger.

Bill Engvall

#32. I'm going to get him to sign my boobs. With his tongue.

Rowan Coleman

#33. 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

#34. I'm afraid they would droop. See, they're drooping already. Bluebells are like that.

Winston Graham

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

Winston Graham