The Lady Elizabeth Quotes

“She had already decided that, when she grew up, she was going to do whatever she pleased and not let anyone order her about.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“It did not do to give your heart to a man so entirely, she thought. Men did not value what they came by easily. Once you loved, you laid yourself open to pain.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“What she loved was being admired, being wanted, being pursued—but she did not think she wanted ever to be caught.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“But what use was the semblance of power without the substance?”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“Life was good, and already she understood that to be aware of happiness when you were actually feeling it, and not just in retrospect, was to be happy indeed.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“Life goes on, you know, and there are compensations to be found. We cannot keep harking back to the past.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“you”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“Some of my subjects do not know what is good for them,”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“Kat embraced her, concealing her dismay as best she could. For these few months, fraught as they were, Elizabeth had been entirely hers again.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“In this world, you must be one thing or the other; you cannot pick and choose each tenet of your faith.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“conversation – about the weather, as that is what you like to talk about in England, other subjects being, er, forbidden, eh?”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth

“time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.”
― Alison Weir, The Lady Elizabeth