32 Quotes About Poldark

It isn't very pretty to have been made a fool of by one's own feelings,' he said. 'To take childish promises and build a--a castle out of them...

I'm going to get him to sign my boobs. With his tongue.

People who brag of their ancestors are like root vegetables. All their importance is underground.

I am a miner's daughter," Demelza said. "I was not brought up gentle. Gentleness –is that the right word?– came upon me when I was half grown. I have Ross to thank for that. And you. But it don't alter me underneath. I still have two marks on my back where Father used the belt. There's naught a few drunks could do but what I couldn't give them back. Tis all a matter of being in the mood.

Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.

He was not discontented, but he was too restless, too preoccupied. Each day led so relentlessly to the next, linked by cause and effect, anticipation and result, preparation and achievement.

I am enceinte, gravid, pregnant, in pup, call it what you will. No doubt there are as many names for the production of a child as for the act which initiates it.

...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.