208 Quotes by Winston Graham

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.

There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The.

I am not agitated. I am only agitated when someone advises me to reduce my diet.

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.

Tedn’t law. Tedn’t right. Tedn’t just. Tedn’t sense. Tedn’t friendly.

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.

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

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

He moved towards her, and knew the moment he touched her that something had won his battle for him. He took her face in his hands, held it like a cup to be drunk from, and then kissed her. With a serious unsmiling mouth he touched her eyelids, her cheeks, her hair, and sighed, as if for the moment her acceptance were all and there was no further desire in him.