127 Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

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

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.