Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

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I was to find my cause, to hate war with a deadly loathing, to feel a murderous instinct to kill those men who, having lived their youth, would send into war other youth, not lived, unfulfilled, to fight and die for them; to hate the pride and cowardice of these old men, making their wars that boys must die.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Life is not so very long... A little work, a little sleep, a little love, and it is all over.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Who shall assign a limit to the wonders of creation! Where is the spot on earth, the animal, or plant, or the creature which mysteriously partakes of both their natures, which does not lay open to us unquestionable evidences of the wisdom and benevolence of God.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
You're a perfect child, a stubborn child! Your mind's in pigtails, like your hair.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The operations of chemistry resemble the moving of a magic wand.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The objects which engage the attention of the naturalist, succeed each other like the moving pictures in La Fata Morgana of the Sicilians.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Her voice was heavy, throaty, expressionless. She threw it like a weapon.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
She had been bred in the new school... This school taught that the wife was no longer subordinate to the husband; that marriage was a mutual contract, in which each bore his part. Obedience was even being left out of the marriage service.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Men love a joke — on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

Mary Roberts Rinehart
It's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
I had a vision... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
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!

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they
move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs.
But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up,
but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from
His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Mary Roberts Rinehart