Mary Stewart Quotes

“The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try”
― Mary Stewart, The Last Enchantment

“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
― Mary Stewart

“I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

“...kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

“Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot be doing all the time.”
― Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave

“The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

“The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

“I remember thinking with a queer detached portion of my mind that here was someone wringing her hands. One reads about it and one never sees it, and now here it was.”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

“Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting

“Used every man according to his capacity.”
― mary stewart, The Crystal Cave

“Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?”
― Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting