Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes - Page 4

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

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

... 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.

McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

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!

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

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

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

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

Enemies are an indication of character.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

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

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

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.

Useless as a pulled tooth.