Mary Stewart Quotes

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you...

I was thankful that nobody was there to meet me at the airport. We reached Paris just as the light was fading. It had been a soft, gray March day, with the smell of spring in the air. The wet tarmac g...

I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Then she saw me watching her. For perhaps two seconds our eyes met and held. I knew then why the ancients armed the cruellest god with arrows; I felt the shock of it right through my body.

There was one thing that stood like stone among the music and moonfroth of the evening's gaieties. It was stupid, it was terrifying, it was wonderful, but it had happened and I could do nothing about...

If anyone was to perform the classic folly of taking a midnight stroll among the murderous gentlemen with whom the hotel was probably packed, it was not going to be me.

I think there is only one. Oh, there are gods everywhere, in the hollow hills, in the wind and the sea, in the very grass we walk on and the air we breathe, and in the bloodstained shadows where men l...

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but...

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could ho...

A child thinks life is fair. A man stands by the consequences of his deeds.

It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.

—¿Dios? ¿Dios? Te he oído hablar de muchos dioses.Si te refieres a Mitra...—Mitra, Apolo, Arturo, Cristo, llámalo como quieras —dije—.¿Qué importa el nombre que le den los hombres? Es la misma luz, y...

It did not occur to them to refuse. They knew that if you find some person or creature in desperate need of help which you can supply you have a human duty to supply it, even if it could inconvenience...

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.

Press on, regardless.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

I'd live with loneliness a long time. That was something which was always there... one learns to keep it at bay, there are times when one even enjoys it - but there are also times when a desperate sel...