Poldark Quotes

“Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?’ she asked. ‘Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?’‘You misbehaved monstrously,’ he said, ‘and were a triumph.”

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

“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...”

“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...”

“He wondered if the real world was that one in which men fought for policies and principles and died or lived gloriously - or more often miserably - for the sake of an abstract word like patriotism or independence, or if reality belonged to the humble people and the common land.”

“Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?”

“I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.”

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

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

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