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
love life late
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
dog women littles
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.
life-and-love drama book
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
ambition heart romance
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.
horse children war
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 has given.
peace war hate
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.
tree mind age
Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.
tragedy world growing
That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.
action life-is results
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
church going-to-church pleasure
The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.
dirty grateful men
Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all.
lonely loneliness cat
A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
lasts firsts haste
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
years people tolerance
It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.