Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret (1862)

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

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

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

Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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
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
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
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
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

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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.

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

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