208 Quotes by Winston Graham

For if you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.

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

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...

And what of this young woman beside him, whom he had loved devotedly for four years and still did love? She had given him more than Elizabeth ever could: months of unflawed relationship, unquestioning trust (which he was now betraying in thought) . Oh nonsense! What man did not at some time or another glance elsewhere? And who could complain if it remained at a glance? (Chance was a fine thing).

Avrebbe voluto pregare per qualcosa che di sicuro il Dio della vedova Chegwidden avrebbe disapprovato.

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

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

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

...I mistrust folk who are always bringing God or Christ into their conversations. If it is not an actual blasphemy it is at least a presumption. It smacks of self-conceit, doesn't it?