My Story
A source page for quotes linked to Mary Roberts Rinehart.
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Source: The Album
Source: My Story
“There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.”
Source: My Story
“Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.”
“The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.”
Source: The Amazing Interlude/The Street of Seven Stars
“Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.”
“McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.”
Source: The Man in Lower Ten
“These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.”
Source: Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
“That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.”
Source: The doctor
Source: The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book
“because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“there is no truly honest autobiography.”
Source: My Story
“the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.”
Source: The Window at the White Cat
“From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.”
Source: A Poor Wise Man
“Conflict is the very essence of life.”
Source: The Album
“It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.”
Source: Sight Unseen/The Confession
“Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.”
Source: The Window at the White Cat
Source: The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man
“I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.”
Source: When A Man Marries (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
“Enemies are an indication of character.”
Source: The Bat
Source: The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man
Source: Lost Ecstasy
“[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.”
Source: When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat
Source: My Story
“All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.”
Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man
Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man
“Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.”
Source: A Poor Wise Man
Source: My Story
“[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.”
“when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.”
Source: The Red Lamp
“Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.”
Source: The Circular Staircase/The Man in Lower Ten
Source: Where There's a Will/The Case of Jennie Brice/The After House
“A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.”
Source: The frightened wife, and other murder stories
Source: Where There's a Will/The Case of Jennie Brice/The After House
“I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!”
Source: The doctor
“Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.”
Source: Married People: A Collection of Short Stories
Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man
“Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.”
Source: Miss Pinkerton
“I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.”
Source: The Bat
Source: When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat
“It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.”
Source: The Window at the White Cat
“It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.”
Source: The Great Mistake