56 Quotes by Emmuska Orczy

Money and titles may be hereditary,” she would say, “but brains are not,“...

Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

He was but a man madly, blindly, passionately in love, and as soon as her light footsteps had died away within the house, he knelt down upon the terrace steps, and in the very madness of his love he kissed one by one the places where her small foot had trodden, and the stone balustrade there, where her tiny hand had rested last.

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Mr. Hempseed shook his head with an infinity of wisdom, tempered by deeply-rooted mistrust of the British climate and the British Government.

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him.

No! The captain of the guard was that damned Englishman in disguise, and everyone of his soldiers aristos!” The.

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

Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless.