Anomalies Quote by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child...

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . .…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“The old vicious cycle of empires threatened to repeat itself, the old story of the many led by the few. Always it had come,…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

the calm of a place like Bellwood is the peace of death without the hope of resurrection.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart