"...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."
- Winston Graham
"If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops."
"That reminds me of when you used to call and see us before Christmas, the year before last. Somehow–somehow life was all dark and secret and beautiful then."
"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, e..."
"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 you ..."
"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 hare..."
"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."
"I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?"
"I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza."