Top 83 Maitland Quotes
#1. A book about courage-a long string of tiny courageous steps. It is also about hope and faith and love. It is modest, careful and joyous. I do not see how any attentive reader could fail to be touched, awed and encouraged." Sara Maitland, Author
Alice Warrender
#2. Based on the timing, the circumstances. In July 1970, William Maitland vanished from the face of the earth. In August of the same year, we heard the first reports of a foreign pilot flying for the enemy. Running weapons and gold.
Tess Gerritsen
#3. We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.
Karen Maitland
#4. You are the sacred consummation of the sun and the moon and the shadow and you will become the poison of death. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#5. We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.
Sara Maitland
#7. Maybe that is what Hell is, being trapped for ever in your own nightmares and never being able to wake. [Gisa]
Karen Maitland
#8. If they don't utter the words, it cannot happen. But words, once spoken, seal a man or maid for life or death. [Gisa]
Karen Maitland
#9. His gaze was fixed so intently on me that, though I had been determined to look him in the eye as his equal, I found myself having to stare down at the corner of the table in order to stammer out a word.
Karen Maitland
#10. The earth makes creatures well again. When you are sick you are put to bed, and when you are very sick, you are put into the earth to make you well.
Karen Maitland
#11. People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
Karen Maitland
#12. There was a new king and his name was pestilence. And he had created a new law - thou shalt do anything to survive.
Karen Maitland
#13. They all wait impatiently for the blessed cloak of darkness to cover their wretched little deeds, but the sun will not be hurried by the whims of men.
Karen Maitland
#14. Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.
Sara Maitland
#15. The woman never used one word when she could torment ten.
Karen Maitland
#16. In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
Karen Maitland
#17. Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.
Sara Maitland
#18. I have been wronged by so many men that I find it hard to trust anyone and see only greed and malice in every heart. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#19. For a moment there was an expression of greedy excitement in his eyes, like you see in the eyes of men when they are looking at woman who arouses their lust.
Karen Maitland
#20. Even when you're terrified, or because fear sharpens the mind, you get flashes of blinding comprehension. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#21. I miss you terribly. You see, you always talk about getting cure of our romance, and I did my best to help! But now you have me definitely and hopelessly 'contaminated' to the extent that I am sick at heart. Strangeley, I do not want to be cured! I love you completely.
Leslie Maitland
#22. 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
#23. He was a good-looking man, but then rogues usually are
Karen Maitland
#24. Hope itself is always genuine. It's only what it's placed in that can prove to be false.
Karen Maitland
#25. On the shelves of her uncle's shop a jar contains the powdered skull of a suicide, a well-known cure for the falling sickness.
Karen Maitland
#26. It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.
Sara Maitland
#28. If I had killed someone, it would certainly have come as no surprise to him, since he was always telling I'd end my days on the gallows. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#29. My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.
Sara Maitland
#30. Besides, I'm not sure they let ferrets into Heaven and I'd miss old Mavet.
Karen Maitland
#31. If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply "alone."
Sara Maitland
#32. Curiosity was always my weakness and, once more, it got the better of me. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#33. People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
Karen Maitland
#36. We had taken her for granted until she was no longer there, like an ancient tree you don't truly see until it is felled, and then only from the empty space in the sky do you suddenly grasp its stature.
Karen Maitland
#37. In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Karen Maitland
#38. She was like an outline of the painting of the Holy Virgin that an artist has sketched in black and white, but not yet filled with colour.
Karen Maitland
#39. I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.
Karen Maitland
#40. Art is an artificial organization of experience ...
Sara Maitland
#41. Yet the ink on the page was ancient, faded. (...) Fresh iron-gall ink was as black as Beelzebub's beards.
Karen Maitland
#42. Those who kill can never be forgiven, for their victims cannot forgive them. And they go, drenched in guilt, to their graves. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. He didn't care that he'd be punished. Punishments always came to an end eventually. [Felix]
Karen Maitland
#46. 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
#48. You will sleep till the stars fall from the heavens ans the seas turn into dust. [Father Arthmael]
Karen Maitland
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Sometimes mercy is not a kindness and pity is not love.
Karen Maitland
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I got fascinated by the silence and by what happens when you venture out in that enormous emptiness
Sarah Maitland
#55. 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
#56. But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.
Karen Maitland
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.
Karen Maitland
#60. 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
#62. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.
Karen Maitland
#63. Sometimes I feared I'd turn into a bat myself, stuck up there night and day, scrathing away. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#64. Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.
Sara Maitland
#65. I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#66. The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.
Karen Maitland
#67. You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.
Sara Maitland
#68. Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.
Sara Maitland
#69. there is an interior dimension to silence, a sort of stillness of heart and mind which is not a void but a rich space.
Sara Maitland
#70. We couldn't bring the sheep back to life, so there was nothing for it but to eat the evidence.
Karen Maitland
#71. The essence of the moon, gathered by a virgin, added to the death of innocence. [Sylvian]
Karen Maitland
#72. Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.
Sara Maitland
#73. There was a man with the sun in the place of his head and a woman with the moon instead of a face.
Karen Maitland
#74. He will not tell them that it lives, that it escaped them, That will be his treasured secret.
Karen Maitland
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. Both the vessel and the receiver must be chosen carefully according to the nature of the ting to be distilled.
Karen Maitland
#80. You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.
Sara Maitland
#81. It was a mark of just how saintly I was that I hand't smothered him to death long ago. [Vincent]
Karen Maitland
#82. 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
#83. 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
