1,174 Quotes by Anne Rice

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art – the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard’s canvases – beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden.

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn’t the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

It’s Stella. Stella’s got the gift and she’ll get everything when I die.’ ‘And what’s the gift, Miss Mary Beth?’ my mother asked her. ‘Why, Stella’s seen the man,’ Miss Mary Beth said to my mother. ‘And the one who can see the man when she’s all alone inherits all.

Don’t you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

Of course, it’s about faith – faith that this is God’s world and we’re God’s children. How could it not be about faith? I think if one truly loves God with all one’s heart, then one has to love everybody else. It’s not a choice. And you don’t love them because it scores you points with God. You love them because you are trying to see them and embrace them as God sees and embraces them. You are loving them because they are alive.

Although we cannot number the infinite, nevertheless it can be comprehended by Him whose knowledge has no bounds.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth.

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. And it means something else too, doesn’t it? I shall never ever grow up.