Winston Graham Quotes
Top 69 wise famous quotes and sayings by Winston Graham
Winston Graham Famous Quotes & Sayings
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feel that, however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.
His parents should be here soon. I shall feel happier when they are able to take the responsibility.
Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?
...are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?
Demelza was beginning to feel like a lion tamer who has been putting his pets through their paces and finds them getting out of hand.
I have never been clever enough - or egotistical enough to spend 300 pages dipping into the sludge of my own subconscious.
Ross took a deep breath of the air, which was heavy with the smell of sea. He fancied he could hear the waves breaking.
Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.
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.
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...
Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part
In order to destroy this system which we so much detest we are creating conditions over here which run contrary to our dearest p-principles.
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.
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...
There are no permanent things, only fleeting moments of warmth and companionship, precious stationary seconds in a flicker of troubled days. The
The waves were shadows, snakes under a quilt, creeping in almost unseen until they emerged in milky ripples at the water's edge.
I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.
Her shadow kept her company along the corridor to her bedroom, preceding her like a welcoming innkeeper.
...Here, beast, you shall be the chairman, and mind you call us to order." He leaned forward and dropped the cat on the empty seat.
For life is a trumpery thing at best, isn't it? A few moments, a few words, between dark and dark. But in true love you keep company with the Gods.
Blemishes on the beauty of a person one loves are like grace notes adding something to a piece of music.
It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.
I was very happy, I think part of the point of this creativity is to do something that helps you in a cathartic sense.
Names are important. They have to be neither too ordinary nor too queer, just a name, like a face, that'll go along with the crowd.
Lazy in everything," said Ross, "but the search for excuses. Like two old pigs in their sty and as slow to move from their own patch of filth." Prudie