Baroness Orczy Quotes

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".

There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.

Even the worst moments and the weariest journeys must come to an end.

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

We must prove to the world that we are all nincompoops

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began.

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.

A woman's heart is such a complex problem - the owner thereof is often most incompetent to find the solution to this puzzle.

Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

Look at this limp cravet. And the sad state of those cuffs. I can hardly bring myself to look upon them.

The weariest night, the longest day, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!

The weariest night the longest day sooner or later must perforce come to an end.