Top 70 Jacqueline Winspear Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

2. “Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

3. “It was time to move on, to dance with life again.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

4. “Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

5. “Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

6. “Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

7. “Never fear going in circles, Maisie. The next time around, you’ll see something you missed before – that’s if your mind is open. And you will be different, and it will be better. Experience, Maisie. Knowledge of yourself. And when you have knowledge, you have wisdom. If your mind is open, and your heart is willing.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

8. “Never judge a journey by the distance...”

— Jacqueline Winspear

9. “My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

10. “Wolfgang von Goethe:“A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.”

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11. “The story takes up space as a knot in a piece of wood. If the knot is removed, a hole remains. We must ask ourselves, how will this hole that we have opened be filled? The hole, Maisie, is our responsibility.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

12. “Most people don’t realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong...”

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13. “I’ll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of your heart to all that is new and all that is different, and it will be the making of you-if you allow it to be.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

14. “The truth always finds a way, Maisie, in some manner or form. You cannot deliberately change the course of the river without causing a flood or drought somewhere else.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

15. “Never let fears get in the way of happiness, because fear can lead to such irrational reasoning, and we can make dreadful mistakes, saying things we can’t take back.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

16. “The irony in any investigation was that lies were often protectors of the truth – unless they became too powerful, in which case lies were like worker bees who turn on their queen.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

17. “Wisdom comes when we acknowledge what we can never know.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

18. “It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one’s heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

19. “Perhaps we shouldn’t try to answer the questions now – let’s just note them down. Maurice always said the power in a question is not in the answer, it’s in the way the imagination gets busy when the question is at work.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

20. “Those of us who have reached our more mature years know the value of a nap, Maisie, and we can indulge ourselves without the comfort of pillow or bed.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

21. “In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition.”

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22. “I know this isn’t easy for anyone – nothing worth doing is every easy” Brenda to Maisie Dobbs.”

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23. “Now that’s discrimination – when you look down your nose at the very men who fought to make sure you could still go to work in your tidy, warm office. That’s the trouble with people – they cherish their comforts, but they don’t want to know where they come from.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

24. “Even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you had your mother at your back, you’d be okay. Some deep-rooted part of you would know you were loved. That you deserved to be loved. – Jojo Moyes, One Plus One.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

25. “I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!”

— Jacqueline Winspear

26. “I’ve come to the conclusion that liking a person we are required to have dealings with is not of paramount importance. But respect is crucial, on both sides, as is tolerance, and a depth of understanding of those influences that sculpt a character.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

27. “It’s really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

28. “Grief is not an event, my dear, but a passage, a pilgrimage along a path that allows us to reflect upon the past from points of remembrance held in the soul. At times the way is filled with stones underfoot and we feel pained by our memories, yet on other days the shadows reflect our longing and those happinesses shared.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

29. “Allow grief room to air itself,” Maurice had taught her.“Be judicious in using the body to comfort another, for you may extinguish the freedom that the person feels to be able to share a sadness.”

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30. “The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put on the table at the end of the working day. And she knew that she needed this sustenance as surely as her body needed its fuel.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

31. “I can dance with life again.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

32. “What’s interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

33. “In a time of war the supply and movement of money becomes even more crucial than ever. Money is a powerful tool, and wars are about powerful men and how they use the tools at their disposal. The military is involved in a number of ways.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

34. “And that’s what we are all looking for, isn’t it? A home. We’re looking for where we belong.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

35. “I am no longer an artist interested and anxious. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate, will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn in their lousy souls. – Paul Nash, Artist 1899–1946 Paul Nash served with the Artists’ Rifles and the Royal Hampshire Regiment in the Great War.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

36. “There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

37. “Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you. In time, Maisie, you will find that the larger questions in life share such behavior.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

38. “But there are many men-and women-who do things in a time of war that they wouldn’t dream of doing in peacetime, and all for the common good.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

39. “Maurice’s maxim: “To solve a problem, take it for a walk.”

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40. “And as she grieved, she realized that she had never trusted the world to keep herself or those she loved safe. From the moment of her mother’s death, she had known that terror could be around the next corner at any moment. Had there ever been a time when she felt the clutch of fear in her gut loosen its grip, so that she could have faith in the future?”

— Jacqueline Winspear

41. “One always has riches when one has a book to read.”

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42. “Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

43. “There is no path set for this kind of shock, and for the grief that attends such terrible news.”

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44. “She thought the flat would be all the better for some photographs, not only to serve as reminders of those who were loved, or reflections of happy times spent in company, but to act as mirrors, where she might see the affection with which she was held by those dear to her.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

45. “War’s always the same though – politicians square off and ordinary lads do their dirty work.”

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46. “If her soul were a room, it was as if a light were now shinning in a corner that had been dark.”

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47. “Solitude was her soul’s hermitage.”

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48. “Memories appear in flashes of light, in short scenes, in reflections that can make us laugh or bring us to tears.”

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49. “If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – KAHLIL GIBRAN.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

50. “But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored of the tenets of not only fascism but also of Adolf Hitler himself. And you know, that was treading on a lot of toes.”

— Jacqueline Winspear