Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1876
CountryUnited States of America
Mary Roberts Rinehart quotes about
illusion revelations accepting
I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.
oil pretense
pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
philosophy mind world
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!
knowledge doors superstitions
when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.
race devil want
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
sight gains infatuation
Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.
humorous men fellows
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.
honest autobiography
there is no truly honest autobiography.
laughter book play
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
safety age middle
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
gratitude responsibility development
Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]
children growing-up moving
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.
writing careers may
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
saws lawyer making-money
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.