32 Quotes About Poldark


  • Author Winston Graham
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    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.

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  • Author Winston Graham
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    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.

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  • Author Winston Graham
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    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.

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  • Author Winston Graham
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    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.

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

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