134 Quotes by Mary Stewart

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

I think the secret is that it belongs to all of us - to us of the West. We've learned to think in its terms, and to live in its laws. It's given us almost everything that our world has that is worthwhile. Truth, straight thinking, freedom, beauty. It's our second language, our second line of thought, our second country. We all have our own country -- and Greece.

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

Wait for me." It was the same farewell as always. "Wait for me. I shall come back." And as ever, I made the same reply. "What else have I to do but wait for you? I shall be here, when you come again.

Arthur thought it better to make sure that the scattered Saxon forces could not re-form, at least while he came south for his father's burial.""He is young,"she said, "for such a charge."I smiled. "But ready for it, and more than able. Believe me, it was like seeing a young falcon take to the air, or a swan to the water.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

Happiness changes as you change. It's in yourself.