30 quotes found
“Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.”
“Men's tongues in some things outrun women's.”
“I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.”
“It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.”
“I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?”
“If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.”
“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”
“But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...”
“Everyone," Ross said, "seems a little less concerned than I do. Am I more tender-hearted for others or only tender because of my own conscience?""We are notuntender," she said. "Not so. But maybe w...”
“Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.”
“And what of this young woman beside him, whom he had loved devotedly for four years and still did love? She had given him more than Elizabeth ever could: months of unflawed relationship, unquestion...”
“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.”
“God, thought Ross, it does work, and unfairly; but I want her, not any other, not the most beautiful eighteen-year-old damsel born out of a sea-shell, not the most seductive houri of any sultan's h...”
“That reminds me of when you used to call and see us before Christmas, the year before last. Somehowsomehow life was all dark and secret and beautiful then.”
“Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.”
“I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.”
“...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.”
“Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens...”
“I suspect that for a good deal of the time you live in a sort of glass case, not knowing real enthusiasm or genuine emotion; or feeling them perhaps at second hand, feeling them sometimes because y...”
“In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.”
“All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.”
