“ 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
“ Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favoured by exceptional circumstances. Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“ 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
“ 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 phant… 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 on… Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“ And thus they form a perfect group; he walks back two or three paces, selects his point of sight, and begins to sketch a hurried outline. He has finished it before they move; he hears their voices, th… Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“ . . . 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
“ The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don’t know what it i… Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“ . . . 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
