Цитаты из книги Демельза

Странно, с какой легкостью мы произносим обидные слова и с каким трудом даются нам добрые.

Джордж посмотрел через улицу и, немного подумав, произнес:

• Главный недостаток Полдарков в том, что они не способны признать поражение.

• Что ж, надеюсь, тогда вы это непременно запомните. - Росс повернулся к Уорлеггану спиной и вошел в таверну.

"Странно, с какой лёгкостью мы произносим обидные слова и с каким трудом даются нам добрые." (с)

- Люди с большими домами не всегда самые гостеприимные, да, Росс?

• Как и хорошо воспитанные не всегда обладают самыми чистыми помыслами.

He [Pascoe] was in this scheme as their banker, but he had no stomach for conflict. He was in all his dealings a man of peace, using his own money for principled ends, but not caring to defeat the unprincipled. He liked to look on money in an academic way: figures to be squared with other figures, balances to be brought to an equilibrium; it was the mathematics of his business which appealed to him most of all.

A place without wind'd be like bread without yeast, nothing to keep it light.

'The essence of a good joke is that only two should share it.' 'I thought that was the essence of a good bed.'

He watched her covertly, hoping for another glance but not getting it. But women, he knew, could look without looking.

Mrs Odgers spent all her time agreeing with someone. It was her mission in life.

'You mock me, Ross. Always you d'mock me.' 'It's an inverted form of reverence. Didn't you know that?'