Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes

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Love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is the habit of many to sneer at statisticians, because a foolish man once said that you could prove anything from statistics; but statistics are like circumstantial evidence, which cannot err in itself, though false deductions Our Criminals

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
We spend the best part of our lives in making mistakes, and the poor remainder in reflecting how very easily we might have avoided them.

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
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave, boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A potential executive must make friends of fellow workers along the way, regardless of their positions. You can't have too many friends, and one enemy within an organization is too many.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The highest yield you can get on an investment in the United States is in real estate.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

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
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
It is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I've found two gray hairs in my head the week before last, and an impertinent crow has planted a delicate impression of his foot under my right eye.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon