208 Quotes by Winston Graham

I still don't know where the evil comes from that makes men bestial to others like you have told" . . . ."Perhaps it is because you have so little evil in yourself.""No, no, I do not think so. That is not what I meant at all. I do not believe that ordinary men have this evil. Perhaps it is like a fever that blows in the air, like cholera, like the plague; it blows in the air and settles on men -- or a town -- or a nation -- and everyone in it, or nearly everyone, falls a victim.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

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

I thought, the way to love is through suffering. Who had said that? Did it mean anything or was it just the usual talk?

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

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.

Everyone," Ross said, "seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience?""We are not–untender," she said. "Not so. But maybe we are more–resigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it–so it's more of a–a disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.

At times I have discovered a new lowness of spirit, a new need to revolt, to kick against the constraints that a civilized life tries to impose.” He stopped and regarded her. “Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no less flawed and defective?

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.