To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us. — 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
