208 Quotes by Winston Graham

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be named as sensuous or emotional as such, perhaps derived from each and gave to each but in essence grew out of a deeper fund of temperament that he still could not altogether apprehend. The simple miner's daughter was not simple in character at all.

George stared across the street. 'There is only one trouble with the Poldarks,' he said after a moment. 'They cannot take a beating.''And only one trouble with the Warleggans,' said Ross. 'They never know when they are not wanted.'George's color deepened. 'But they can appreciate and remember an insult.''Well, I trust you will remember this one.' Ross turned his back and went down the steps into the tavern.