Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1922...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 August 1876
CountryUnited States of America
children growing-up moving
The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they move the earth. To some He allots heart...and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence...and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all has taken one color instead of many.
writing careers may
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
saws lawyer making-money
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
horse children war
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 God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.
fear cancer men
There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay.
love life late
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
dog women littles
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
sarcastic teeth useless
Useless as a pulled tooth.
sleep littles little-love
A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.
gratitude responsibility development
Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]
life-and-love drama book
The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.
action life-is results
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
men thinking action
These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.
book criminals ends
McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business.