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Top 80 Mary Stewart Quotes (2024 Update)

Mary Stewart Quote: “The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it’s useless even to try.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Happiness changes as you change. It’s in yourself.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Press on, regardless.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “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.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “A good house, deep in the woods, with a garden all around it and a river flowing past it. Fruit trees, and flowers planted for the bees. A place to grow my herbs. Silence in winter, and in summer nothing but the birds. Lonely as the grave, and every bit as restful.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Give me time to be myself, know myself, become a little used to happiness. The rest will be up to me.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “I had been so used to God’s voice in the fire and stars that I had forgotten to listen for it in the counsels of men.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “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.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “It was nearing 9 O’clock, and the fist duck was drawing down. Behind the trees, the first star pricked out, low and brilliant. The light breeze of the day had dropped, and the evening was very still. The stream sounded loud. I walked down to the gate and stood leaning on the top bar, enjoying the scent of the roses, and straining to listen for any sound from the lane or the road beyond.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “At breakfast!′ said Louise in an awed voice. ‘A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “It was the egret, flying out of the lemon grove, that started it. I won’t pretend I saw it straight away as the conventional herald of adventure, the white stag of the fairy-tale, which, bounding from the enchanted thicket, entices the prince away from his followers, and loses him in the forest where danger threatens with the dusk.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “All that we have is to live what life brings. Die what death comes.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “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.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “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.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Knowledge, I suppose, blocked the gates of vision.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Life does just go on, and you change, and you can’t go back. You have to live it the way it comes.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Mother and daughter got on very well indeed, with a deep affection founded on almost complete misunderstanding.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Merlin, do you mind?′ It was the King who asked me, a man as old and wise as myself; a man who could see past his own crowding problems, and guess what it might men to me, to walk in dead air where once the world had been a god-filled garden.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “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 hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Nothing ever happens to me.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Like the first breath of living wind to the sailor becalmed and starving, I felt hope stir.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “There is no one so leadenfooted as the reluctant bringer of bad news.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “I can say ‘reduce your stress level’ until I’m blue in the face.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?”
Mary Stewart Quote: “It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “It is easier to call the storm from the empty sky than to manipulate the heart of a man; and soon, if my bones did not lie to me, I should be needing all the power I could muster, to pit against a woman; and this is harder to do than anything concerning men, as air is harder to see than a mountain.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “People are straightforward enough, on the whole, till one starts to look for crooked motives, and then, oh boy, how crooked can they be!”
Mary Stewart Quote: “In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. And you are alive, and back with me here. By the great God of heaven, I have you back with me. What should I fear now?”
Mary Stewart Quote: “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...”
Mary Stewart Quote: “I doubt if any son every knew more about his father and his father’s father than I, with all you have told me; but telling is not the same. There was alot of knowing to make up.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “I think that knowing the future might be disturbing, but it can be good as well; knowing and not being frightened, having the time to make all one’s arrangements, and knowing that there are good hands waiting for the things and people one cares about.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “A robin lighted on a blackthorn at my elbow, and began to sing. The sound came high and sweet and uncaring through all the noise of battle. To this day, whenever I think of the battle for Kaerconan, it brings to mind a robin’s song, mingled with the croaking of the ravens.”
Mary Stewart Quote: “Someone’s got to look after the devil himself, as long as he wears clothes and needs food and drink.”
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