{"author":"Winston Graham","author_id":"Winston+Graham","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction...","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["fascination","fear"],"id":100,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"...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.","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["cats","humorous"],"id":11040,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["poldark","sarcasm","war"],"id":29122,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["hurt","life","pain","struggles"],"id":40692,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"The most frightening blazing anger was alive in her now. It was not only Elizabeth that she could have killed but Ross. She could have thrown every piece of crockery at him, and knives and forks too. Indeed she could have attacked him knife in hand. Fundamentally there was nothing meek or mild about her. She was a fighter, and it showed now.","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["betrayal","demelza","fighter","poldark"],"id":47717,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"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 not–untender,' she said. 'Not so. But maybe we are more–resigned. When a man is condemned to death we accept it, though it's sad to do so. We know we cannot change it. You hoped to change it–so it's more of a–a disappointment. You feel you have failed. We don't feel that because we never hoped to succeed.","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["change","conscience","death","demelza-poldark","fate","ross-poldark"],"id":58874,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"Yes, it was a 'beautiful' sermon, tugging the emotions and conjuring up pictures of greatness and peace. But were they talking about the decent peppery ordinary old man he knew, or had the subject strayed to the story of some saint of the past? Or were there perhaps two men being buried under the same name? One perhaps had shown himself to Ross, while the other had been reserved for the view of men like William-Alfred. Ross tried to remember Charles before he was ill, Charles with his love of cockfighting and his hearty appetite, with his perpetual flatulence and passion for gin, with his occasional generosities and meannesses and faults and virtues, like most men. There was some mistake somewhere. Oh well, this was a special occasion...But Charles himself would surely have been amused. Or would he have shed a tear with the rest for the manner of man who had passed away?","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["funerals","hypocrisy","ideal-vs-real","sugar-coating-words"],"id":86722,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"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, unquestioning trust (which he was now betraying in thought) . Oh nonsense! What man did not at some time or another glance elsewhere? And who could complain if it remained at a glance? (Chance was a fine thing).","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["poldark","relationships","ross-poldark"],"id":87790,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["chance","death","hazards-of-life","security"],"id":93836,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"},{"text":"Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was itself enhanced if it were not totally taken for granted. Perhaps it was something to do with the whole philosophy of the world into which we were born. If we lived for ever, who would look forward eagerly to tomorrow? If there were no darkness, should we appreciate the sun? Warmth after cold, food after hunger, drink after thirst, sexual love after the absence of sexual love, the fatherly greeting after being away, the comfort and dryness of home after a ride in the rain, the warmth and peace and security of one’s fireside after being among enemies. Unless there was contrast there might be satiety.","author":"Winston Graham","tags":["appreciation","contrast","philosophy","ross-poldark"],"id":104264,"author_id":"Winston+Graham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}