The most wicked criminals have God on their...... Quote by "Margaret George"

The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.
— Margaret George Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles

Tags: religion

Other Quotes by "Margaret George"

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.
— Margaret George Elizabeth I

Tags: time, mortality, life

I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Being a Calvinist, a papist, a Presbyterian, an Anglican labeled a person's philosophy on education, taxes, poor relief, and other secular things. The nation needed an accepted position on such concerns. Hence the fines for not outwardly conforming to the national church.
— Margaret George Elizabeth I

Tags: tudor, religion, politics

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
— Margaret George Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles

Tags: hope

So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
— Margaret George The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Tags: relationships, love, loss, life, journey, fiction, epiphany, cleopatra