“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon“Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon“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.""I sometimes think I should have been a good one.""Why?""Because I am patient.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret“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.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret“. . . 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.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret“. . . 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.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret“Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret“That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant")”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies