Bears Quote by Baroness Orczy

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

“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

Fate is usually swift when she deals a blow.

— Baroness Orczy

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

— Baroness Orczy

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

— Baroness Orczy

“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

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

— Baroness Orczy

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

— Baroness Orczy

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

“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

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

— Baroness Orczy

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

— Baroness Orczy