Winston Graham

“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he…

— 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'.

— Winston Graham

“It is hopeless for older people to tell younger ones – particularly their own children – that they have been through the…

— Winston Graham

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining,…

— Winston Graham

“Tedn’t right. Tedn’t tidy. Tedn’t fair. Tedn’t clean. Tedn’t good enough.”

— Winston Graham

“he was deeply annoyed at having to leave the fair before he was drunk, a thing that had never happened to him…

— 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.”…

— Winston Graham

“Give me some surety if you want to continue. It is not late yet.” Ross offered his gold watch, which had belonged…

— Winston Graham

“Not for the first time he was conscious of emotional lights and shades in his wife that could not be categorized, could…

— Winston Graham

“Sir Hugh squeezed her arm so often that Demelza began to wonder if the show was all a pretext for being with…

— 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…

— 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…

— Winston Graham

“Help, help, help, I am lost in the very deeps of the earth. Not eight feet underground but two hundred; blind already…

— Winston Graham

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

— Winston Graham

“He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.”

— Winston Graham

“Another and less elevated lesson she had learned in married life was that if she wheedled long enough and discreetly enough, she…

— Winston Graham

“A big fly came down also and settled on a leaf close to her face; he had two round brown knobs on…

— Winston Graham

“Aw! I’ll get ’ee rags and some turpletine.”

— Winston Graham

“Fetch it down an’ I’ll mix ye a Sampson.” It had once been Prudie’s favorite drink: brandy and cider and sugar. She…

— Winston Graham

“On all counts I’ve let these people down. I came among them a stranger and a physician. I have met with nothing…

— Winston Graham

“Because what is civilized life but an imposition of unreal standards upon flawed and defective human beings by other human beings no…

— Winston Graham

“Their lives had been the tragedy of one woman who couldn’t make up her mind.”

— Winston Graham

“These savage laws,” Ross said, controlling his temper with the greatest difficulty. “These savage laws that you interpret without charity send a…

— Winston Graham

“I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm…

— Winston Graham

“He said in exasperation, “Goddamn it, you should know I’m not used to dealing with women! You search the earth to find…

— Winston Graham