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
book sleep night
Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.
book giving dinner
Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.
men class ego
To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.
safety age middle
It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age.
peace war hate
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
book writing creative
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.
country fear struggle
... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.
gasoline absurd seems
I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.
men strain
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.
endurance world patient
Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?
war fall son
War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.
relief trouble burden
When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.
years people tolerance
It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.
laughter book play
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.