42 Quotes by Anya Seton

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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