Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes

• Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Pretty Woman, Tea, Looks

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.190, Oxford University Press

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• it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Poverty, Easy, Difficult

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.157, Oxford University Press

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• My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Insanity, Lines, Littles

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.618, The Floating Press

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• Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Love, Easy, Difficult

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.56

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• When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Love Each Other, Breach, Seems

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1869). “Run to Earth: A Novel”, p.156

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• love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Fever, Mystery, Madness

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.594, The Floating Press

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• The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Repentance, Proof, Endeavor

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• La amabilidad es la cualidad que redime a los tontos.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Quality, Fool, Redeeming Qualities

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• Guilt soon learns to lie.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lying, Guilt

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1884). “Ishmael: A Novel”

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• el amor es una esencia tan sutil, una maravilla metafísica tan indefinible, que su debida fuerza, aunque muy cruelmente sentida por el propio enfermo, nunca es claramente comprendida por quienes contemplan sus tormentos y se preguntan por qué lleva tan mal la fiebre común.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Love Is, Essence, Fever

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.344, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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

  Self, Individuality, World

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1997). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.106, Wordsworth Editions

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• Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Vices, Virtue, Wells

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881). “Asphodel, by the author of 'Lady Audley's secret'.”

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• Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Life, Blessing, Done

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.111, Oxford University Press

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• A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Women, Army, Victory

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1875). “Hostages to Fortune: A Novel”, p.13

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Cutting, Self, Ignorant

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2014). “Aurora Floyd”, p.298, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Gente, Mundo, Ayudar

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.115, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lying, Heart, Feelings

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872). “Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel”, p.68

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• London's like a forest ... we shall be lost in it.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  London, Forests, Lost

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• Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Paris, Intellect

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2016). “The Cloven Foot”, p.43, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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• How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Men, World, Indifference

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• There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Hands, Brave, Peaceful

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1949). “Murder by gaslight: Victorian tales”

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• A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Games, Hunters, Coquette

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Winning, Doe, Rewards

  "Dead-sea Fruit".

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Patience, Police, Taste

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.124, Oxford University Press

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