Quotes from Myrtle Reed

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

A man likes to feel that he is loved, a woman likes to be told.

Money may not be your best friend, but it's the quickest to act, and seems to be favorably recognized in more places than most friends are.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient.

It is possible for a spinster to be disappointed in lovers, but only the married are ever disappointed in love.

Did you ever read a love-letter that wasn't an evidence of idiocy - except your own?

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.

marriage is a great strain upon love.

As if by magic, the love of the many comes with the love of the one.

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.