Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

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• The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Perseverance, Time, Clever

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “Affinities”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Peace, Affirmation, Passive

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• Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

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  Endurance, World, Patient

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• Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

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  Writing, Certain, Reader

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1939). “Writing is Work”

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• The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Two, Stories, Mystery Novels

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• Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

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  Inspirational, Adventure, Perspective

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• A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.

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  Sleep, Littles, Little Love

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2009). “The Breaking Point: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.267, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Knowledge, Doors, Superstitions

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.64, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• 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

  Morning, Cutting, Cities

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “The Circular Staircase: Mystery & Detective Collections”, p.35, 谷月社

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• The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

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  Church, Going To Church, Pleasure

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.137, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

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  World, Weapons, Ridicule

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

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• Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

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  Girl, Boys, Men

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “Married People: A Collection of Short Stories”, p.11, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

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  Gasoline, Absurd, Seems

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2014). “Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

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  Rain, Fall, Unjust

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “Sight Unseen/The Confession”, p.140, Essential Library

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• I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.

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  Saws, Lawyer, Making Money

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000). “When a Man Marries/The Window at the White Cat”, p.344, Essential Library

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• 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!]

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  Gratitude, Responsibility, Development

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• Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

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  Hard Work, Men, Play

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.30, The Floating Press

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• That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Tragedy, World, Growing

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• It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

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  Trouble

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Great Mistake”, p.282, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• Conflict is the very essence of life.

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  Essence, Essence Of Life, Conflict

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Album”, p.224, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• [On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

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  Fishing, Brain, World

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.15, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

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  Stars, Ambition, Arms

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.9, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

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  Courage, Men, Coward

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.64, Overamstel Uitgevers

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• pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Oil, Pretense

  Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart (2011). “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man”, p.31, The Floating Press

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