173 Quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley

The truth is not so good a story.

From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

I never thought that I was very intelligent

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.