Mary Stewart Quotes

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

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.

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.

Sometimes, when you're deep in the countryside, you meet three girls, walking along the hill tracks in the dusk, spinning. They each have a spindle, and on to these they are spinning their wool, milk-...

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

Life does just go on, and you change, and you can't go back. You have to live it the way it comes.

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...

It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

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...

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...

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...

It is for you to choose. Choice is man's right, and for that I leave you free.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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