The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“All lives are so divided: a step back; a plunge; and then, in desperation and despair, a little climb up God's ladder.” — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective! — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child... — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . .… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image