Best 6 quotes of Violet Winspear on MyQuotes

As you say, I can feel it and I can smell it, but for me it's still a black rose.

Can it be that distance makes the heart feel fonder, and scatters roses where nettles really grow?

It's funny, but Shakespeare, with all its passion, never does too well at the box office. And d'you know why? Because most people are fools. They shrink like violets from good, honest passion, which, if only they'd be honest and admit it, is all they feel themselves in the name of love. They will wrap sex up in pretty, piffling declarations of love. The big, tough hero must carry his mate off into the bush, but by heaven, if he doesn't say, afterwards, 'I love you, darling' — cut! The censor is swooning. Or the public are.

My passionate puritan!

Never again could she give herself to any man as she had given herself to her husband; completely, as though the world might end before morning came.

Women, mysterious, vulnerable, enticing and full of mixed up loves and hates,’ he drawled. ‘Frail reeds that often survive a storm while male oaks go crashing . . . must I really number you among them just yet, pixie? Can't I go on thinking of you as a charming infant?