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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Books

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon was an English novelist renowned for her suspense and detective novels. Her works were highly popular in the late 19th century, particularly 'Lady Audley's Secret' and 'The Clue of the Tower'.

Lady Audley's Secret

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Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

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Aurora Floyd

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Hostages to Fortune: A Novel

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Ishmael: A Novel

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Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales

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Run to Earth: A Novel

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The Cloven Foot

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“I have been afraid of you, Mr. Robert Audley," she thought, "but perhaps the time may come in which you will have cause to be afraid of me.”

Madness Vengeance Secrecy Lady Audley

Author: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." "I sometimes think I should have been a good one." "Why?" "Because I am patient.”

Crime Patience Detectives

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")”

Femme Fatale Evil Women

Book:The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies

Source: The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies

“They seemed to move in a paradise of their own, regardless of those around them, thoughtless of the morrow, forgetful of yesterday, infinitely happy in the present hour.”

Love Romance Love Quotes Fiction Quote

Book:The little woman in black 1886 [Leather Bound]

Source: The little woman in black 1886 [Leather Bound]

“I scarcely think there is a greater sin, Lucy," he said, solemnly, "than that of a woman who marries a man she does not love. You are so precious to me, my beloved, that deeply as my heart is set on this, and bitter as the mere thought of disappointment is to me, I would not have you commit such a sin for any happiness of mine. If my happiness could be achieved by such an act, which it could not—which it never could," he repeated, earnestly—"nothing but misery can result from a marriage dictated by any motive but truth and love.”

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“Guilt soon learns to lie.”

Book:Ishmael: A Novel

Source: Ishmael: A Novel

“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.”

Mind Heart Kind Feelings Spirit Lying Dies Down And Longing Bitter Sickness Anguish Heart And Mind Remorse Fatigue Weariness Prostration

Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

“London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.”

Lost London Forests

Author:Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”

Intellect Paris

Book:The Cloven Foot

Source: The Cloven Foot

“Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.”

Quality Fool Redeeming Redeeming Qualities

Author:Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.”

Games Modern Hunters Pursued Coquette

Author:Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”

Men World Men And Women Indifference

Author:Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?”

Love Wells Easy Difficult

Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

“The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.”

Proof Repentance Strongest Endeavor

Author:Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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

Wells Virtue Vices Scourge

Book:Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.

Source: Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.

“Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.”

Life Wells Said Matter Done Life Is Blessing Troublesome Said And Done

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“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.”

Individual Mystery Understood Madness Torture Delusion Fever Snares Sufferers Scourge

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“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.”

Looks Force Felt Love Is Common Wonder Understood Essence Dues Subtle Metaphysical Torment Fever Sufferers Indefinable

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.”

Easy Difficult Poverty Stoops

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“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.”

Has Beens Said Seems Subjects Ought Taste Police Patience Horrible Officers Detectives Discussing Police Officer

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”

Looks Tea Pretty Woman

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“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.”

May Made Self Dies Cutting Ignorant Noise Emptiness Deceiving Assertion

Book:Aurora Floyd

Source: Aurora Floyd

“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.”

World Persons Self Lost Mark Silent Individuality Colour Outer Worlds Self Contained

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.”

Doe Winning Talent Circumstances Rewards Exceptional

Author: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.”

Hands Battle Conflict Brave Peaceful Warfare Reconciliation Enthusiastic Shaking Treaties Roaring Cannons Boisterous

Book:Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales

Source: Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales

“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.”

People Ifs Knows World I Can Helping

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

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

Way Littles Sides Lines Intellect Boundaries Insanity Sanity

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

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

Seems Love Each Other Breach Estrangement

Book:Run to Earth: A Novel

Source: Run to Earth: A Novel

“A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.”

Religion Women Achieve Victory Army Command Priests Great Victory

Book:Hostages to Fortune: A Novel

Source: Hostages to Fortune: A Novel

About the Author

Born: October 4, 1835
Died: February 4, 1915
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 29

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Ishmael: A NovelRelated source material

Murder by gaslight: Victorian talesRelated source material

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