Top 30 F W Maitland Quotes
#2. The monk, Gregory the Great, tells how a nun, in her greed, ate a lettuce without first making the sign of the cross to protect herself against the evil spirits that hide between its leaves, and so she became possessed by a demon. Greetwell
Karen Maitland
#3. Pay heed, my darlings, and always take the greatest care over the company you keep in life: if death strikes you without warning, you may be stuck with them til the moon turns to blood and wouldn't that be a torment?
Karen Maitland
#4. On the other hand, curiosity was eating me up, and curiosity is a demon who will not relinqish its hold on you until its voracious appetite has been satisfied.
Karen Maitland
#5. Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard]
Stephen Maitland-Lewis
#6. I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
Karen Maitland
#7. Both the vessel and the receiver must be chosen carefully according to the nature of the ting to be distilled.
Karen Maitland
#8. You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.
Sara Maitland
#9. It was a mark of just how saintly I was that I hand't smothered him to death long ago. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#10. You bear the mark of the ouroboros, the sign of eternal life. And what is that circle, but the shadow of the sun itself.
Karen Maitland
#11. Why do mortals think that suffering is a coin with which they can buy justice or salvation? ... life is a steal if you are a talented thief, and if you are not, then you may suffer all you please but if will buy you nothing but pain.
Karen Maitland
#12. I got fascinated by the silence and by what happens when you venture out in that enormous emptiness
Sarah Maitland
#13. A child's fingernails should never be cut in the first year. The mother must bite them off or he'll become a thief. But when they are first cut at a year old, they must be buried under an ash tree so that witches can't take them and cause the child harm. Lincoln
Karen Maitland
#14. He didn't care that he'd be punished. Punishments always came to an end eventually. [Felix]
Karen Maitland
#15. Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.
Karen Maitland
#16. Sometimes I feared I'd turn into a bat myself, stuck up there night and day, scrathing away. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#17. You will sleep till the stars fall from the heavens ans the seas turn into dust. [Father Arthmael]
Karen Maitland
#18. God's hand can be seen in any occurrence for those who are determined to find it there, but then again, so can the devil's
Karen Maitland
#19. You know that all things are composed of four elements. Tell me their qualities", he orders, his smile suddenly vanished. "Fire is hot a dry. Air is dry and moist. Water cold and moist. Earth cold and dry." [Gisa]
Karen Maitland
#20. Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.
Karen Maitland
#21. A witch cannot die until her familiars or imps are dead. If a witch desires to put an end to her suffering she must call each familiar by name and order it to die. Then, when the last is dead, she too will die. Greetwell Edward
Karen Maitland
#22. Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction.
Owen believed in extinction but not evolution.
Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction.
Darwin believed in evolution and extinction.
All four of them believed in God.
Sara Maitland
#23. King John won't need any persuading that the French have a hand in this. From what I've heard, if a bean gives him a bellyache he swears it was a French one.
Karen Maitland
#24. Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.
Karen Maitland
#25. But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.
Karen Maitland
#26. The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.
Francis Maitland Balfour
#27. Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in himself becomes stronger.
Karen Maitland
#28. Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.
Karen Maitland
#29. They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.
Karen Maitland
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