Quotes from Mary Roberts Rinehart

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

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

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

These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.

There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.

It's money that brings trouble. It always has and it always will.

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

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!

Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

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

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.

Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!

I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

at last she drew on her gloves, straightened her hat, and went away with that odd self-possession which seems to characterize all the older women of the Crescent. Time takes its toll of them, death and tragedy come inevitably, but they face the world with quiet faces and unbroken dignity.

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

a man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world.

Gradually I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter

There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there; the other is to distract his mind.