Of course once I had put into motion the forces of society, society turned on me and said, ‘Have you been living all this time in defiance of my laws, and do you now appeal to those laws for protection?
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

See Lethington Mameret, Roche (Mary’s confessor), on the character of the Queen, 210 Mar, Earl of, entertains Mary at Alloa, 80 ; deprived of the custody of Edinburgh Castle, 172 ; confederated against Bothwell, 181 Marryat, Mr. Horace, and the body of Bothwell, 373 Mary of Gueldres, 45 Mary of Guise, Regent, 19 ; her secretary Lethington, 23 ; deserted by her nobles, 47 ; Bothwell espouses her cause, 47 Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland: the Morton portrait, 3 ; periwig, 3 note; midnight revels and masculine energy, 4 , 5 , 8 ; her ‘four Maries,’ 4 ; costumes and jewels and their donors, 5 ; moods, spirit, and gratitude, 5 , 6 , 7 ; brow-beaten by Knox, 7 ; causes provoking hardness of heart, 8 ; centre of intrigue, 8 , 9 ; Elizabeth’s rival, 9 ; disposition to yield to masterful men, 9 ; Bothwell’s defects instanced against her, 15 ; presented by Ruthven with a ring as an antidote to poison, 17 , 36 ; pensions the assassin of Moray, 22 ; kindness to Lethington, 24 ; Morton her prosecutor, 31 ; virulence of the Preachers of Righteousness against her, 35 , 36 ; ‘bewitched’ by Bothwell, 36 ; social condition of Scotland when she became queen, 43 ; informed by Arran of Bothwell’s plot to seize her, 51 ; political position during her first years in Scotland, 52 , 53 , 54 ; her compromise between Catholicism and Protestantism, 52 ; suspected by the Protestant party of favouring Bothwell, 53 ; intercedes with Elizabeth to allow Bothwell to go to France, 54 ; efforts to fix her as Elizabeth’s successor, 55 ; sees Darnley and admires him, 12 , 55 ; action in Bothwell’s outlawry, 56 ; weds Darnley, 13 , 57 ; summons Bothwell from France against her opponents, 57 ; estrangement from Darnley, 13 , 57 ; political use made of her intimacy with Riccio, 58 ; twitted with favouring Riccio and Bothwell, 59 ; anger against Moray, 56 ; amour with Riccio not credible, 60 , 63 ; removes Darnley from her Council, 60 ; illness, 61 ; letter to Pius V., 63 , 64 ; arranges Bothwell’s marriage with Lady Jane Gordon, 64 ; insists on free Mass for all men, 65 ; schemes for killing Riccio in her presence, 68 ; rescued by Bothwell, Huntly, and Atholl after Riccio’s murder, 69 ; at Dunbar, 69 , 70 , 71 ; seeks to quiet the country, 71 ; growing hatred of Darnley, 71 ; threatens that a fatter than Riccio should soon lie anear him, 72 ; pardon of the rebel Lords demanded of her, 72 ; befriends Moray, 73 ; represented by Lennox as trying to induce Darnley to make love to Moray’s wife, 74 ; her bequests to Darnley, 75 ;
— from The Mystery of Mary Stuart by Andrew Lang

I just lay awake thinking of the life I’d been leading and the things I’d done, and feeling as if I’d made everything I touched dirty.
— from The White Hecatomb, and Other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

On the 23d of April 1563, the first stone of this Cyclopean palace was laid, under the direction of Bautiste di Toledo, at whose death, in 1567, the work was continued by Juan de Herrera, and finally perfected by Leoni (as to the interior decorations) in 1597.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

Once I had put into motion the forces of society, society turned on me and said: 'Have you been living all this time in defiance of my laws, and do you now appeal to those laws for protection?
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg

And, George," she peered at him and dared herself to say the words, though old Halkett's ghost might be lurking among the trees: "I don't think your father can have been a ve-ry good influence on a wild young man like you."
— from Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

I don't want to stay here ,' sobbed Harry, coming back to his own hopeless self again; 'I want to go somewhere where folks don't have to be lonesome all the time; I don't know what dying is, but if dying will do it, I want dying to take me there.'
— from Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various