Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes
Top 75 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Men ... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child ...
Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter,
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
The theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.
A man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world.
There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.
No one moved to get the whisky, from which I judged there were three pocket flasks ready for emergency.
I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.
The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
There comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder.
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!