Warleggan Quotes

“When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“If what I feel for you is dislike -- for coming between me and my work sometime every day in the last fifteen months --if that's dislike...If being unable to forget your voice, or the way you turn your neck, or the lights in your hair -- if that's dislike...If wanting to hear that you're married and dreading to hear that you're married...If resenting the condescension that pretends you're not out of my reach...Perhaps you can identify these symptoms for me.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“The most frightening blazing anger was alive in her now. It was not only Elizabeth that she could have killed but Ross. She could have thrown every piece of crockery at him, and knives and forks too. Indeed she could have attacked him knife in hand. Fundamentally there was nothing meek or mild about her. She was a fighter, and it showed now.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“Demelza said: ‘It seems to me no man is wise enough if the woman is not wise enough.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“For if you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don’t matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

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

“Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn’t make up her mind.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793

“You see people every day who take a chance and damn the consequences. Many of them suffer for it, but I do not think they come off worst. The people who come off worst are the people who draw back at the last moment and spend the rest of their lives regretting it.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“If there are two feelings, then I don’t think you can put them in separate compartments ever, because one is a part of the other and inseparable.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“Far better now if he had never known. The knowledge served no purpose but to destroy what was left of his peace of mind.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“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.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“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.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“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.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“The longer I live,’ Ross said, pulling his brows together painfully, ‘the more I distrust these distinctions between strong men and weak. Events do what they like with us, and such – such temporary freedom as we have only fosters an illusion.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“All the week a great thunderbolt hung over the house. 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.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793

“He went down and found the body floating. Francis had been dead about an hour. In one of his hands, clutched so that they could barely unfasten it, was a rusty nail.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793

“Help, help, help, I am lost in the very deeps of the earth. Not eight feet underground but two hundred; blind already but not deaf, shuddering in the warm water, fingers burning last grip loosening; one nail, one rusty nail.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan: A Novel of Cornwall, 1792-1793

“Having a husband, it seems to me, is a small matter like going to church. Either you trust in something or you do not. If you do not, then there's no benefit in going to church at all, is there? But if you do believe in him, then you've no excuse to be asking for proofs all the time.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace.”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan

“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”
― Winston Graham, Warleggan