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Top 30 Anya Seton Quotes (2025 Update)

Anya Seton Quote: “A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”

1. “A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Timing’s mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you’ve got to start over. Do it right.”

2. “Timing’s mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you’ve got to start over. Do it right.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.”

3. “Life is malleable and the hammer is desire.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Nay, it’s not the Devil been leading her astray. It’s books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”

4. “Nay, it’s not the Devil been leading her astray. It’s books! That girl has been nothing but trouble ever since she learned how to read.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.”

5. “Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame.”

Anya Seton Quote: “I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.”

6. “I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.”

Anya Seton Quote: “The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel, and rumbles ever with a sound of rumors, while the goddess of fame is as false and capricious as her sister – Fortune.”

7. “The house of fame, he thought, is built on melting ice, not steel, and rumbles ever with a sound of rumors, while the goddess of fame is as false and capricious as her sister – Fortune.”

Anya Seton Quote: “As I grew up I got cynical. I’d see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a ‘reading’ which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.”

8. “As I grew up I got cynical. I’d see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a ‘reading’ which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.”

Anya Seton Quote: “He wasn’t strong. He was weak. The weakest thing in the world. A man who lives only for himself.”

9. “He wasn’t strong. He was weak. The weakest thing in the world. A man who lives only for himself.”

Anya Seton Quote: “There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.”

10. “There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.”

Anya Seton Quote: “I only know that from wherever it is that we’re going there can be no turning back.”

11. “I only know that from wherever it is that we’re going there can be no turning back.”

Anya Seton Quote: “There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.”

12. “There was no such thing as pure happiness. How many years it took to learn that! Always some dark fretted thing which unbalanced the ease one had laboriously found.”

Anya Seton Quote: “No matter how dutiful one tried to feel, it was impossible to be sad at leaving this behind, not when the blood ran hot and rich in the veins, and when out in the world there were all the untried beckoning enchantments : dancing, sensuous music, merriment – and love.”

13. “No matter how dutiful one tried to feel, it was impossible to be sad at leaving this behind, not when the blood ran hot and rich in the veins, and when out in the world there were all the untried beckoning enchantments : dancing, sensuous music, merriment – and love.”

Anya Seton Quote: “It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.”

14. “It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.”

Anya Seton Quote: “If I should never see him again – she thought, Blessed Mother, how could I live, and yet it was the fear of seeing him again which had driven her to this desperate haste. The fear that if he were there so near her she.”

15. “If I should never see him again – she thought, Blessed Mother, how could I live, and yet it was the fear of seeing him again which had driven her to this desperate haste. The fear that if he were there so near her she.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Look, bimba – In my country we have a – how you say? – a proverb. Amare, cantare, mangiare. – Loving, singing, eating – these are God’s three gifts. You don’ need more.”

16. “Look, bimba – In my country we have a – how you say? – a proverb. Amare, cantare, mangiare. – Loving, singing, eating – these are God’s three gifts. You don’ need more.”

Anya Seton Quote: “I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone’s selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others.”

17. “I guess every disaster, every tragedy in the world, my lad, is caused by someone’s selfishness and refusal to recognize the rights of others.”

Anya Seton Quote: “The new Queen was adept at fostering loyalty by hopes alone.”

18. “The new Queen was adept at fostering loyalty by hopes alone.”

Anya Seton Quote: “How can he be so cruel to me at times – and then like this? she thought. And again her awakening perceptions gave her the answer. He would hurt her himself, take pleasure in doing so, but he would not allow her to be injured by anyone or anything else.”

19. “How can he be so cruel to me at times – and then like this? she thought. And again her awakening perceptions gave her the answer. He would hurt her himself, take pleasure in doing so, but he would not allow her to be injured by anyone or anything else.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Always we live on islands of one kind or another.”

20. “Always we live on islands of one kind or another.”

Anya Seton Quote: “She had not, as yet, enough introspection to realize that part of his fascination for her had arisen from his unpredictability, and her conception of him as a mysterious being from a superior world who had miraculously condescended to desire her. Nor did she realize how tightly she was enmeshed by his physical attraction, a bondage woven not only from the magnetism of his body but from the very fear and pain he caused her.”

21. “She had not, as yet, enough introspection to realize that part of his fascination for her had arisen from his unpredictability, and her conception of him as a mysterious being from a superior world who had miraculously condescended to desire her. Nor did she realize how tightly she was enmeshed by his physical attraction, a bondage woven not only from the magnetism of his body but from the very fear and pain he caused her.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Self-preservation is the first and strongest law of nature.”

22. “Self-preservation is the first and strongest law of nature.”

Anya Seton Quote: “You’ve read some of my stuff?” he asked eagerly, adding with bitterness, “ ‘The Raven,’ I suppose. Such fame as I have appears to rest entirely on the plumage of that gloomy bird.”

23. “You’ve read some of my stuff?” he asked eagerly, adding with bitterness, “ ‘The Raven,’ I suppose. Such fame as I have appears to rest entirely on the plumage of that gloomy bird.”

Anya Seton Quote: “They had dismounted, laughing, amorous, and Katherine on finding a fairy ring of mushrooms in the grove had cried that by means of this enchantment on Midsummer Eve she would bind her love to her for ever, so that he might never once leave her side.”

24. “They had dismounted, laughing, amorous, and Katherine on finding a fairy ring of mushrooms in the grove had cried that by means of this enchantment on Midsummer Eve she would bind her love to her for ever, so that he might never once leave her side.”

Anya Seton Quote: “Even the Bible admitted that the world was full of mystery and beauty and golden perfumed luxury.”

25. “Even the Bible admitted that the world was full of mystery and beauty and golden perfumed luxury.”

Anya Seton Quote: “A Tropic flower cannot live without sun. A soul cannot live without love.”

26. “A Tropic flower cannot live without sun. A soul cannot live without love.”

Anya Seton Quote: “She has something else – a great deal else,” said Alice Perrers’ soft laughing voice from the corner, “and if you ladies are too stupid to see it, the men won’t be. Thanks to God that the King is short-sighted, I can fill his entire vision – and shall.”

27. “She has something else – a great deal else,” said Alice Perrers’ soft laughing voice from the corner, “and if you ladies are too stupid to see it, the men won’t be. Thanks to God that the King is short-sighted, I can fill his entire vision – and shall.”

Anya Seton Quote: “I admire the man’s genius, I sense in his writings a strong kinship with my own mind; they have a macabre quality, a voluptuous flavor of mystery and evil which attracts me strongly.”

28. “I admire the man’s genius, I sense in his writings a strong kinship with my own mind; they have a macabre quality, a voluptuous flavor of mystery and evil which attracts me strongly.”

Anya Seton Quote: “In jewels and brocades and a whirl of musk, Alice flounced triumphantly out of her chariot, her three little dogs frisking and barking after her. She raised her thickly painted face to the Duke.”

29. “In jewels and brocades and a whirl of musk, Alice flounced triumphantly out of her chariot, her three little dogs frisking and barking after her. She raised her thickly painted face to the Duke.”

Anya Seton Quote: “But I’m not repentant!” The Duke’s voice rose suddenly high and passionate. “I love the woman – she is my life – all my bliss.”

30. “But I’m not repentant!” The Duke’s voice rose suddenly high and passionate. “I love the woman – she is my life – all my bliss.”

Anya Seton Quote: “I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do,” said Richard, his eyes sparkling.”

31. “I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do,” said Richard, his eyes sparkling.”

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