[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil. — 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 picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come, autocracy, the too great power of one man; then anarchy, the overthrow of that power by the angry mob. Out of that anarchy the gradual restoration of order by the people themselves, into democracy. And then… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share
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
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