127 Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

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

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

The world doesn’t come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it’s all over.

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer’s life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.