Mary Stewart Quotes

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.

Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

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.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

I have nothing but admiration for the actors on soap operas. It is unbelievably challenging to put out an hour show in one day.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

Used every man according to his capacity.

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

...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

By the time that adorable steak and I had become one flesh I could have taken on the whole Valmy clan singlehanded.

Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted

Silence then, and the scent of apple trees, and the nightmare sense of grief that comes when a man wakes again to feel a loss he has forgotten in sleep.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.