--- title: "1 Discuss Quotes By Winston Graham" description: "1 Discuss quotes by Winston Graham. Plus more from Winston Graham and more Discuss sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21a/winston-graham-8694_discuss_i-must-think-of-something-to-say-thought_3010716.jpg" --- > [“I must think of something to say, thought Verity. Why have I no small talk like those girls over there? If I could help him to talk, he would like me more; he’s shy like me, and I ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/i-must-think-of-something-to-say-thought-verity-why-have-i-no-small/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/21a/winston-graham-8694_discuss_i-must-think-of-something-to-say-thought_3010716.jpg) ## More by Winston Graham > [“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/yet-although-he-could-not-quite-work-this-out-in-simple-terms-in-his/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/when-you-bring-an-idealised-relationship-down-to-the-level-of-an/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the same thing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/it-is-hopeless-for-older-people-to-tell-younger-ones-particularly/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/give-me-the-comma-of-imperfect-striving-thus-to-find-zest-in-the/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“Tedn’t right. Tedn’t tidy. Tedn’t fair. Tedn’t clean. Tedn’t good enough.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/tedn-t-right-tedn-t-tidy-tedn-t-fair-tedn-t-clean-tedn-t-good-enough/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him since he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/he-was-deeply-annoyed-at-having-to-leave-the-fair-before-he-was-drunk/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“Perhaps,” said Demelza, trembling all over. “Perhaps I’d ought to have asked for an introduction seeing it’s so long since we met.” “I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/perhaps-said-demelza-trembling-all-over-perhaps-i-d-ought-to-have/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“Give me some surety if you want to continue. It is not late yet.” Ross offered his gold watch, which had belonged to his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/give-me-some-surety-if-you-want-to-continue-it-is-not-late-yet-ross/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/not-for-the-first-time-he-was-conscious-of-emotional-lights-and/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“Sir Hugh squeezed her arm so often that Demelza began to wonder if the show was all a pretext for being with her in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/sir-hugh-squeezed-her-arm-so-often-that-demelza-began-to-wonder-if/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“All the conflicting feeling inside her suddenly found an outlet. The mixed motives for asking him in—the liking, the affection, the feminine curiosity, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/all-the-conflicting-feeling-inside-her-suddenly-found-an-outlet-the/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/it-s-gone-he-shouted-the-brandy-said-prudie-lurching-to-her-feet-ere/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“Help, help, help, I am lost in the very deeps of the earth. Not eight feet underground but two hundred; blind already but not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/help-help-help-i-am-lost-in-the-very-deeps-of-the-earth-not-eight/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/tedn-sense-tedn-reasonable-tedn-right-tedn-proper-tedn-true/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) > [“He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-graham/he-felt-righteous-and-unashamed-he-decided-to-go-to-bed-sober/) [Winston Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-graham/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discuss/winston-graham/#itemlist", "name": "1 Discuss Quotes By Winston Graham", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I must think of something to say, thought Verity. Why have I no small talk like those girls over there? If I could help him to talk, he would like me more; he’s shy like me, and I ought to make things easier, not harder. There’s farming but he would not be attracted by my pigs and poultry. Mining I’m no more interested in than he. The sea I know nothing of except cutters and seiners and other small fry. 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