Quotes from E.D.E.N. Southworth

Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!

The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she had just rode out in quest of adventures.

This is a jolly imprudent adventure!

What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?

I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite.

Sarcastic and merciless one, you glory in the pain you give!

He shall bite the dust!

Great self-respect is as often manifested in forbearance as in resentment.