Baroness Orczy Quotes

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• The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.
• 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…
• When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness,…
• In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
• Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not…
• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the…
• We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops
• She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him
• A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.
• I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in…
• When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they…
• Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.
• Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
• Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!
• Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
• Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,"...
• 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…
• A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures,…
• ...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and…
• 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…

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