Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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Mystery writer · American · 1876–1958

American mystery writer (1876–1958)

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Popular Quotes

“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”

“Love is like the measles. The older you get it the worse the attack.”

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

“To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

Common Themes

“War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at Gods blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a w...”

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

war

“In my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has...”

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

mystery

“Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago," she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!”

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

humor mystery

“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Money Lawyer Making Money

“To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

happiness

“Love is like the measles. The older you get it the worse the attack.”

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

love marriage

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