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

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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result.... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
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.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
It was the throats of women that died first. With men it was the nape of the neck. It withered or it grew heavy; men wrote their lives there, where they could not see what they had written. But with women it was the throat.

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

Mary Roberts Rinehart
All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

Mary Roberts Rinehart