Sisi Quotes

“And Sisi was struck by the Heine quote she had circled that morning, on her trip back to Vienna: Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one’s enemies—but not before they have been hanged.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“You, to me, Sisi, are the most perfect piece of art I have ever beheld.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“It’s not the wolves, Empress,” Marie Festetics said, her voice hushed. “I’m more frightened of what awaits us at the top of this mountain.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“She’d been strolling—for pleasure. Because everything that the poor do out of necessity, the rich do for pleasure.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“Vienna’s leaves burst from green into a riot of color—flame red, mustard yellow, warm gold, and honeyed ochre—before falling from the branches and carpeting the imperial boulevards with their used remnants.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“At first I was almost for giving in; I thought I never could bear it. Yet, in spite of all, I’ve borne it— Only ask me not how. —HEINRICH HEINE QUOTATION, KEPT ON SISI’S DESK CHAPTER 13 Moravia, Austria-Hungary Summer 1885 “Let’s see now.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“I will always love you,” he said, whispering the words. Was it a good thing for her to know all of this, or would it have been better had he never said it?”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“Where I am not, there lies happiness.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“wore her thoughts and emotions so plainly on her face that she barely needed a mouth to speak them.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one’s enemies—but not before they have been hanged.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“Beauty was not a gift to covet. Beauty had been bestowed on her in heaps, but it had brought her no joy. It had allowed for no peace.”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own

“There is a new young doctor here in town. I’ve had the chance to read some of his early writings—simply fascinating, his advances in science,” Rudolf said, wiping his thin mustache with a napkin. “Dr. Sigmund Freud is his”
― Allison Pataki, Sisi: Empress on Her Own