208 Quotes by Winston Graham

Tedn for we to be setting the world in step. Tedn sense, tedn natural, tedn right, tedn safe.

Men’s tongues in some things outrun women’s.

Demelza said: ‘It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.’ Ross.

Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn’t make up her mind.

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.

Refreshment is the remedy for all manner of embarrassments.

Why must you plague me with these questions in the middle of the night?

At that, his smile faded and he kissed her. “Ross,” she said. “Dear Ross.” “I love you,” he said, “and am your servant. Demelza, look at me. If I’ve done wrong in the past, give me leave to make amends.” So he found that what he had half despised was not despicable, that what had been for him the satisfaction of an appetite, a pleasant but commonplace adventure in disappointment, owned wayward and elusive depths he had not known before, and carried the knowledge of beauty in its heart.

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.