All This, and Heaven Too Quotes

“Affections cannot be stolen, madam. They are given freely or not at all.”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“Integrity of thought, flexibility of mind, and a consuming curiosity concerning the world and its occupants were the touchstones to her friendship. Whether she happened to find these in some struggling gifted youth or in some person of recognized achievement, her response was equally sincere. The sensitive antennae of her own sympathy and human awareness reached out in a roomful of people and unerringly found minds to quicken hers, talents to match her own. She loved wit, but not at the expense of wisdom. She delighted in good company and the exchange of talk, yet she was seldom deceived by mere superficial brilliance.” -p. 505”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“The daily venom of the Duchesse’s jealousy had corroded his self-control. It was as if an oak tree that had defied storms and woodsmen had fallen at last under the incessant hammerings of a woodpecker.” -p. 299”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“When questioned in court (and she refused a lawyer): “All her life she had loved words and kindled to them, but now she was in their power. They shot to and fro, like shuttles weaving the threads of some invisible pattern…
“The quick blade of his irony delicately laid bare the tissues wrapping cause and motive. He must trap her into some unguarded admission of complicity. But she, too, held a blade as powerful as her questioners. She was speaking the truth. She had nothing to hide from him.” -p. 295”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“It only takes a drop of poison to turn what is sound to something rotten and corrupt.” -p. 201”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“Reputation is a prize you’ve won for yourself with self-denial and hard work. If you throw it away, what have you left to fall back on? How will you contrive to live without it?” -p. 198”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“They shan't humiliate me to please themselves.”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too

“It's been so happy for us all to have you here, and I've tried not to think of - of the accounting that you and I, too, must give to the Duchesse. I cannot help feeling that you - that we shall pay dearly because you came with us and left her behind."

"I always pay." He spoke evenly, but his brows drew together in a frown. "Sometimes I pay most for what I never had. I've been happy these few days, and at least that's something on my side of the ledger.”
― Rachel Field, All This, and Heaven Too