Baroness Orczy
Baroness Orczy
Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála "Emmuska" Orczy de Orciwas a Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright, and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London...
heart sadness gay
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
sacrifice self wonderful
There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.
brain may titles
Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"...
destiny links chains
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
simple knives finals
It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't
giving-up adventure fighting
When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
hope journey worst-moments
even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end ...
judging charity littles
Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
virtue crushed
Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
heart problem owners
A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
england emotion century
...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
love men thinking
To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.
sadness gay echoes
When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness, and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.
misunderstood matter facts
She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him