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Mary Roberts Rinehart quotes

American Novelist August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958

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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
Mary Roberts Rinehart quote: "A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over."
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over. Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart quote: "The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life..."
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
Mary Roberts Rinehart quote: "It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age."
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. Mary Roberts Rinehart
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she... 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
...a man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world. Mary Roberts Rinehart
However, I was not long to rest in piece[sic], for in a few days I received a letter from Carter Brooks, as follows: DEAR BARBARA: It was sweet of you to write me so promptly, although I confess to being rather astonished as well as delighted at being called "Dearest." The signature too was charming, "Ever thine." But, dear child, won't you write at once and tell me why the waist, bust and hip measurements? And the request to have them really low in the neck? Ever thine, CARTER. It will be... Mary Roberts Rinehart
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart quote: "All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in..."
All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder. Mary Roberts Rinehart
Providence has a curious way of letting two lives run along, each apparently independent of the other. Parallel lines they seem, hopeless of meeting. Converging lines really, destined, through long ages, by every deed that has been done to meet as a certain point and there fuse. Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart quote: "I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money."
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. Mary Roberts Rinehart

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