Quotes from Winston Graham

Quando il piccolo uomo se ne fu andato, Ross si riempì nuovamente la pipa, l'accese e tornò al suo libro. Tabitha Bethia gli saltò in grembo e lui non la spinse via, e cominciò invece a massaggiarle un orecchio mentre leggeva.

Ah, Ross, eccoti qui, ragazzo. Che succede, la tua casa è caduta in mare e se la stanno portando via le onde?»

Joshua Poldark died in March 1783. In February of that year, feeling that his tenure was becoming short, he sent for his brother from Trenwith.

It is hard to explain, for 'tis more than a gap. Or it has been with us. There is a change. Nothing hasn't been the same since. Those who are left are different people trying to live the same lives.

direct, so bright and clear of eye and manner, that he found it hard to believe she was any man's game. But even if she were, the Biblical analogy that had occurred to him in the mine that day still held good. But how to bring her to repentance? How make a person aware of sin when their unawareness was so complete? It

It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.

In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That

Although a marriage undertaken on one side to acquire a beautiful and patrician property, and on the other to obtain money and protection and a comfortable life, should certainly not have succeeded beyond the terms for which it was tacitly undertaken, it had been, had become successful.

Aveva visto il gelo disegnare motivi simili a foglie sul vetro, gocce di pioggia scorrere come lacrime su vecchie guance, il primo sole di primavera splendere polveroso sul tappeto turco e sulle assi di quercia macchiate del pavimento.

Life is too short to allow little things to fret.

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.

Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

their stay when it was to take place with full formality.

Erano stati insieme, la bambina e l'orologio, la ragazza e l'orologio, la donna e l'orologio, attraverso malattie, incubi, fiabe e sogni a occhi aperti, attraverso la monotonia e la meraviglia della vita.

There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days.

una debole amarezza screziata di orgoglio avvizzito. [...]

Women never fundamentally disliked a little rough treatment. (More than one had told him it was their secret dream.)

It's gone!" he shouted. "The brandy!" said Prudie, lurching to her feet. "'Ere, who's stolen it? 'Twas there an hour gone—" "Not all three kegs!" said Constable Vage, instantly alert. "Why we did oughter have heard them. They couldn't move three kegs without—" "Nay," said Ned Bottrell, shouting above the clamor. "Not the drink, the corpse!

When I met you I was an inebriate, half bankrupt squireen. You didn't know what a catch you were making! I didn't know I was making any catch, said Demelza. Ross rubbed his nose. I didn't know what sort of a catch I was making either. Dear Heaven, that was the luckiest day of my life.

All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath.

He had tried to catch her out, but always she thought ahead of him. Her wits moved quick. The snow leopard was sharper than the black bear.

All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath. But she could very well have been buried with this wrath, because it came from a wound that knew no cure.

Far better now if he had never known. The knowledge served no purpose but to destroy what was left of his peace of mind.