Victoria Holt > Quotes

“Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.”
― Victoria Holt

“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.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“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.”
― Victoria Holt, Mistress of Mellyn

“They say that one chooses one’s friends, but one’s relations are thrust upon one.”
― Victoria Holt, India Fan

“Ha! Rollo!”
― Victoria Holt, The Demon Lover

“The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“When one grows older one learns that happiness—complete and unadulterated happiness—comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.”
― Victoria Holt, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

“Never underestimate yourself, Miss Jessie. People are going to think you’re not up to much if you think that way yourself.”
― Victoria Holt, The Pride of the Peacock

“But somehow at the back of my mind was the feeling that if I did “the sensible thing” I would regret it, for I would be choosing a way of life that would be so predictable, it would rob me of all the excitement that made up the savor of living. If”
― Victoria Holt, India Fan

“You persuade yourself that all is well even though you are feeling bored or unfulfilled and you are not sure if your husband or wife is your Soul mate. You have tried your best and you have created a pretty good life for yourself despite your circumstances. ‘At least you are safe’ your damaged self whispers. ‘At least no one suspects how wounded you are. In fact, I do not even think you are damaged anymore. Look at your nice home, your spouse, your career status, your wealth and all of your nice possessions. You are a success, you fool.”
― Victoria Holt, Heaven is Here - The Ultimate Guide to Living Your Best Life in this World and the Next

“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.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“It seemed I had briefly stepped into a world where people did wild things and paid for them; but it had made me see that there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death.”
― Victoria Holt, The India Fan

“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.”
― Victoria Holt, The Demon Lover

“So, Kerensa, you should never regret any experience, good or evil; for there's some good in what's bad just as there be bad in good...”
― Victoria Holt, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

“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.”
― Victoria Holt, The Secret Woman

“there was more to life than being comfortable and living one day after another, quietly, unadventurously, almost like waiting for death.”
― Victoria Holt, India Fan

“A man condemns himself to failure if he thinks that he won't succeed.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“It will be a compromise, but that's what the marriage often is”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“Never take anything for granted, Miss Jessie. If you do you might lose it. If it’s worth cherishing, cherish it.”
― Victoria Holt, The Pride of the Peacock

“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.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“It has always astonished me how changes come into one's life. The gradual change becomes acceptable, but sudden shock, presenting itself without warning to shatter the existence so completely that nothing will ever be the same again, makes me uneasily aware of the perpetual uncertainties of life.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“Why should this happen to me when I planned and worked… and came so far?”
― Victoria Holt, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

“I wonder why they always wanted to frighten people away. People who want to frighten others are very often frightened themselves.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shivering Sands

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― Victoria Holt, The Secret Woman

“You spent your lie preparing revenge. You should've spent it seeking happiness.”
― Victoria Holt, The Shadow of the Lynx

“I often wondered afterwards why we do not have premonitions in life. . . to warn us. . . to guide us. . . But no, the important moments in our life slip by with no special seeming significance.”
― Victoria Holt, The Demon Lover

“I asked her to teach me, too, but she said it was something you taught yourself by keeping your eyes and ears open, and learning about people — for human nature was the same all the world over; there was so much bad in the good and so much good in the bad, that it was all a matter of weighing up how much good or bad had been allotted to each one.”
― Victoria Holt, The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

“We make our own luck. If you believe in ill luck, it will surely come.”
― Victoria Holt, India Fan