Baroness Orczy

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of…

— Baroness Orczy

“They looked at me and asked me to be merciful; they did not command, they begged ... asking for the pity that…

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Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.

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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

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“... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at…

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“She, at least, ought to have known that he was wearing a mask, and having found that out, she should have torn…

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It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of…

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“He made her laugh always made her taste a strange and exquisite bliss when he held her in his arms.”

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There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

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music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the…

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“Had he but turned back then, and looked out once more on to the rose-lit garden, she would have seen that which…

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The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.

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...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his…

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Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.

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“She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of…

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It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you…

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“Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of…

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A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this…

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She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a…

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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if…

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“Idyllic follies never last, my little Chauvelin....They come upon us like the measles...and are as easily cured.”

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When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to…

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To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we…

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“Tis only in the future you can prove your true worth.”

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“During the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that France had boasted…

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