25 Quotes by Victoria Holt

Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh – the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy.

I was excited because getting to know oneself was exciting. I was beginning to believe that I had the power to influence my own personality.

He had all the most charming and irresistible gestures that a girl deeply in love looks for and who refuses to tell herself that they may have been acquired through long practice.

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.

We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains.

I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.

People don’t always see what their eyes tell them is there. They see what they have made up their minds to see, and I’m afraid they might make up their minds that something done by a woman could not possibly be as good as that done by a man.

How strange is life. Suddenly when one has almost made up one’s mind to a certain action it casually throws an opportunity into one’s path.

A man condemns himself to failure if he thinks that he won’t succeed.