Mary Stewart
Mary Stewart
may doe neglect
It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.
essence trying useless
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
men every-man seeds
Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…
luck wells tempted
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
men soldier navy
There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
book people earth
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.
children mistake thinking
I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.
sleep air years
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again
stupid hands lovely
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
believe gossip say-anything
Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it.
path ifs
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
hope fall light
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
thinking way forget
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
great submitted york
New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.