Mary Roberts Rinehart World Quotations

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!

Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

That is the tragedy of growing old, Chris. You don't leave the world. It leaves you.

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.