Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

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Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
By merely letting him understand that he couldn't have what he'd never wanted, he was eager.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
He knew that marriage was a beginning and not an end. It did not change people fundamentally. It only changed their habits.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
If one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
As all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

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These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

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The new modern music puzzled her. It made her think but it did not make her feel.

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She hasn't called her soul her own for so long that I guess the good Lord won't hold her responsible for it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul — physical courage, not moral.

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We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

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Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

Mary Roberts Rinehart
When knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

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Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

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There comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept.

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There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
My family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early — a business asset but a social handicap.

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She was one of those small tight-lipped neurotics who sometimes turn to religion and now and then to crime.

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That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
It is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

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War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies.... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

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