Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes
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How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
And he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
He thought of his love now as duty.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sir Harry Towers cares.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
[...] that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a smile
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
They were dreamers - and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Guilt soon learns to lie.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon