Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation. Mary Roberts Rinehart More Quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart More Quotes From Mary Roberts Rinehart The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule. Mary Roberts Rinehart ridicule weapons world 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? Mary Roberts Rinehart endurance patient world War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death. Mary Roberts Rinehart war son fall Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. Mary Roberts Rinehart fetch women dog Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. Mary Roberts Rinehart romance love life the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last. Mary Roberts Rinehart haste lasts firsts There is nothing for the modern man or woman to fear about most cases of cancer. Nothing except delay. Mary Roberts Rinehart cancer fear men I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. Mary Roberts Rinehart making-money saws lawyer The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. Mary Roberts Rinehart careers writing may The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church. Mary Roberts Rinehart going-to-church pleasure church I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion. Mary Roberts Rinehart illusion revelations accepting The great God endows His children variously. To some He gives intellect...and they Mary Roberts Rinehart growing-up children moving 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! Mary Roberts Rinehart mind philosophy world Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play. Mary Roberts Rinehart hard-work play men I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter. Mary Roberts Rinehart absurd gasoline seems ... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects. Mary Roberts Rinehart struggle fear country Politics is still the man's game. The women are allowed to do the chores, the dirty work, and now and then--but only occasionally--one is present at some secret conference or other. But it's not the rule. They can go out and get the vote, if they can and will; they can collect money, they can be grateful for being permitted to work. But that is all. Mary Roberts Rinehart grateful men dirty I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. Mary Roberts Rinehart hate war peace ... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering? Mary Roberts Rinehart one-love ifs remember Useless as a pulled tooth. Mary Roberts Rinehart teeth useless sarcastic
