127 Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity ...

my family, although it keeps its hair, turns gray early - a business asset but a social handicap.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.