Mary Stuart Quotes

“Hastalıklar gibi tutkular da ne suçlanabilir ne de onlara bir bahane bulunabilir. Bunlar sadece, daima yenilenen ve insanlarda değil de ara sıra doğada ortaya çıkan dizginsiz güçler karşısında dehşete kapılmayan şaşkınlıkla, geleneksel insan yasalarının ölçüm değerlerine uygun olmayan şiddetli enerji boşalımlarıyla tanımlanabilirler.”
― Stefan Zweig, Mary Stuart

“Tarihin iradesi Elizabeth'in kişiliğinde ifade bulmuştu, çünkü tarihin iradesi her zaman kabuklarını geride bırakarak ileriye doğru çabalar. Bir ulusun bütün enerjisi Elizabeth'in kişiliğiyle birleşmişti, çünkü kraliçenin arkasındaki ulus tüm dünyanın fatihi olmayı arzuluyordu. Mary Stuart'la birlikte geçmiş, şövalyelere yakışır muhteşemlikte, kahramanlıkla ölmüştü. Böylece iki kadın da kendi seçtikleri alanlarda zafer kazanmış oldular, gerçekçi Elizabeth, tarih sayfalarını; romantik Mary ise, şiir ve efsaneleri fethetti.”
― Stefan Zweig, Marie Stuart

“Bathsheba's was an impulsive nature under a deliberative aspect. An Elizabeth in brain, and a Mary Stuart in spirit.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).”
― Danny Saunders

“Three noble heads cut off in sacrifice for her. But nothing - nothing - can deter the jostling swarms of madmen, pushing forth to jump into the abyss - to waste their lives - for her. And every day the scaffolds heave to hang the new - and newer - martyrs for her cause. Black day that England ever welcomed her.”
― Robert Icke, Mary Stuart

“Mary Stuart and Elizabeth both aimed at toleration in an intolerant age, in the same ways that Catherine de’ Medici, the mother-in-law of one and the almost mother-in-law of another English queen, labored her whole life to heal the rift between Catholic and Protestant in France. All three of these queens worked as diligently and as astutely as they might to restrain the fratricidal wars of Christian against Christian. What they had to hold up against that violent seismic shift in human sensibility was the orderly traditions of monarchy. If they did not ultimately succeed, they slowed and tempered the disorder and violence.”
― Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

“Because [Michel de Castelnau] had been charged with making peace between [Mary Stuart] and her barons, he ignored Mary’s adamant insistence on how anti-monarchal she considered the rebel lords to be; he decided that hers was a profoundly immature political analysis. Yet Elizabeth’s own moral outrage at these same rebels’ affronts to monarchal principles, when, two years later, they refused to obey her commands to release their anointed queen from prison, suggests that Mary was simply being clear-sighted rather than naïve and saw earlier what Elizabeth learned only later. Mary was neither stupid nor ill-educated. She knew what she was talking about.”
― Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe

“So Elizabeth behaved cautiously as usual and put Mary [Queen of Scots] in prison - nice prison, but she wasn't allowed out. And that's where she stayed for nineteen years. . . . She immediately became the focus of plots and rebellions. In 1569, there was a major Catholic rising in the north which aimed to free Mary, marry her to the Duke of Norfolk and put her on the throne. When it was defeated, Elizabeth had 600 rebels executed (so it wasn't just her sister who could be bloody).”
― David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens