Quotes from Winston Graham, Ross Poldark

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.

In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

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...

I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.