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
oil pretense
pretense is the oil that lubricates society.
philosophy mind world
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!
long mind deals
I have a great deal of mind. It takes a long time to change it.
wall paper used
Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.
boys men elderly
as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.
long remember forget
I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!
want firsts married
it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.
lonely loneliness cat
A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.
wine bottles milk
To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.
hands want lawyer
Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.
knowledge doors superstitions
when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.
race devil want
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
moving mind barns
having considerable mind, changing it became almost as ponderous an operation as moving a barn, although not nearly so stable.
hard-work men play
Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.