I, Elizabeth Quotes

“Oh, I know, I know, she was a sweet girl, a simple country girl; everyone told me that, both then and since. But I could not forgive her animal dumbness - worse, her rank sensuality, easy as any cow's, and like her dumpling breasts, quite irresistable to men - while those of us whom God has made to think and feel, who are strung out like harps along the wires of our own nature, why, we are rarer than music and must content ourselves with smaller audiences.”
― Rosalind Miles, I, Elizabeth

“Wherever I am, in wood or field,
By dawn or evening light,
Without cease my heart feels
The pain of one who is not here...”
― Rosalind Miles, I, Elizabeth

“Woe to the land where naked greed holds sway.”
― Rosalind Miles, I, Elizabeth

“Now what is Love, I pray thee tell?
It is that fountain and that well
Where pleasure and repentance dwell.
It is perhaps that saucy bell
That tolls all into heaven or hell-
And this is Love, as I hear tell.”
― Rosalind Miles, I, Elizabeth

“But fall?
No.
What is it, love?
If not a fall, is it a hunger? The appetite casting around for strange meat not yet encountered, hungry for what it does not know yet, but will recognize at the first scent in the air?
I know one thing: No one tumbles straight into their greatest love, the great love of their life. For there are many kinds of love- maiden love, flesh love, flesh hunger, then the deepest love hunger- and all these must be tried, tasted and relished before the one great love.”
― Rosalind Miles, I, Elizabeth

“Those eyes that hold the hand of every heart,
Those hands that hold the heart of every eye,
That eye, that hand, that wit, that heavenly sense,
All these do show my mistresses' excellence.”
― Rosalind Miles, I, Elizabeth