The Red Lamp Quotes

“...a man may shout the eternal virtues and be unheard forever, but if he babble nonsense in a wilderness it will travel around the world.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Red Lamp

“...because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Red Lamp

“The cuckoo shows melancholia, not madness. Like Byron, he goes about wailing his sad lot, and now and then dropping an egg into someone else's nest.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Red Lamp

“It is characteristic of the average mind often to question what it hears, but to believe wholeheartedly what it reads.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Red Lamp

“Yet she [Jane Porter] asks little enough: a quiet life, peace, and if not active happiness, that resignation which after the hot days of youth are over, passes for contentment.”
― Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Red Lamp