Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Guilt soon learns to lie.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“He was a student - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students. He was a German - such things…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take…

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

“They were dreamers—and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon