Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark Quotes

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

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

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...