Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes
When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.
Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.
Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
Of course there are exceptional circumstances, and there is exceptional talent; but, unhappily, exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.
You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.
Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.
Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.
. . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or however important, seem saturated with his one great sorrow.
. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.