33 Quotes by Rachel Field

It’s terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.

I’ve seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

I heard it once again, coming to me across miles of air from a far away concert hall. I knew when I heard the drums begin their familiar beat of hammers on the wooden hulls what I had known so surely that night of his concert and out there alone with him in the sort, that nothing which has ever stirred the heard can be lost to us.

Reputation is a prize you’ve won for yourself with self-denial and hard work. If you throw it away, what have you left to fall back on? How will you contrive to live without it?” -p. 198.

It only takes a drop of poison to turn what is sound to something rotten and corrupt.” -p. 201.

The daily venom of the Duchesse’s jealousy had corroded his self-control. It was as if an oak tree that had defied storms and woodsmen had fallen at last under the incessant hammerings of a woodpecker.” -p. 299.