It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began. — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny. — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that lay dormant… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height,… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn it from… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.” — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which would have… — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end. — Baroness Orczy Copy Share Image
