7 Quotes by Baroness Emma Orczy

The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

The moral crisis she'd just gone through made her feel indulgent toward the faults, the delinquencies of others. How thoroughly a human being can be buffeted and over-mastered by fate had been borne in upon her with appalling force.

Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.

Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.

Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime.