“Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago," she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!”
Mary Roberts Rinehart“I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.”
Mary Roberts Rinehart“The world doesn't come to the clever folks it comes to the stubborn obstinate one-idea-at-a-time people.”
Mary Roberts Rinehart“Love is like the measles. The older you get it the worse the attack.”
Mary Roberts Rinehart“To be kind to all to like many and love a few to be needed and wanted by those we love is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”
Mary Roberts Rinehart“In my criminal work anything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise. From the frayed and slovenly petticoats of the woman who owns a poultry stand in the market and who has grown wealthy by selling chickens at twelve ounces to the pound, or the silk sweep of Mamie Tracy, whose diamonds have been stolen down on the avenue...”
Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat“Her eyes filled. "He forgot my birthday, two weeks ago," she said. "It was the first one he had ever forgotten, in nineteen of them." Nineteen! Nineteen from thirty-five leaves sixteen!”
Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Window at the White Cat“There are only two things to be done when a general is angry: One is to get behind the furniture and pretend one is not there”
the other is to distract his mind.