127 Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.