The Great Mistake Quotes

“You can have all sorts of symptoms, with only one disease,”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Great Mistake

“waved a smiling good night to me. She looked a lonely figure standing there, under the high white pillars, and I find that I always think of her like that; lonely against the panoply of wealth, kind and totally unarmed against the world.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Great Mistake

“in the Beverly Club ballroom I had had my first dancing lessons; Miss Mattie holding up her long, full black taffeta skirt, her neat toes pointing out, and two rows of small boys and girls awkwardly hopping about.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Great Mistake

“thought, for all her lightness, she was studying me. Not subtly. She was never a subtle woman; but with the semi-direct frankness with which children survey strange people.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Great Mistake

“I found myself liking her at once. She was as plain as an old shoe. Queer how one can hear of people for years, dislike them on principle, and then meet them and fall for them. I fell for Maud Wainwright that day with a crash—braid, bedroom slippers, and all.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Great Mistake

“Maud Wainwright, a big, irregularly handsome woman, probably fifty and not ashamed of it,”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Great Mistake