Book Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

— Mary Roach

“am merely mourning that so many good or lively books are dead so soon, or only imperfectly kept alive in the cheap and severe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's…

— Edward Albee

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

“When King Lear dies in Act V, do you know what Shakespeare has written? He’s written “He dies.” That’s all, nothing more. No fanfare,…

— Dustin Hoffman

Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues -…

— A. S. Byatt

“The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.”

— Nikki Gemmell

It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you…

— George R. R. Martin

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by…

— George Steiner

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear…

— Aldous Huxley