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Top 25 Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quotes (2024 Update)

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.”

1. “My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”

2. “How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “For you see Miss Lucy Graham was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a smile.”

3. “For you see Miss Lucy Graham was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a smile.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.”

4. “When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”

5. “Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.”

6. “Amiability is the redeeming quality of fools.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.”

8. “Exceptional talent does not always win its reward unless favored by exceptional circumstances.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “We are apt to be angry with this cruel hardness in our life – this unflinching regularity in the smaller wheels and meaner mechanism of the human machine, which knows no stoppage or cessation, though the mainspring be forever hollow, and the hands pointing to purposeless figures on a shattered dial.”

10. “We are apt to be angry with this cruel hardness in our life – this unflinching regularity in the smaller wheels and meaner mechanism of the human machine, which knows no stoppage or cessation, though the mainspring be forever hollow, and the hands pointing to purposeless figures on a shattered dial.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Why, I can’t help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I’m no better than the rest of the world; but I can’t help it if I’m pleasanter. It’s constitutional.”

11. “Why, I can’t help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I’m no better than the rest of the world; but I can’t help it if I’m pleasanter. It’s constitutional.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?”

12. “Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.”

13. “There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.”

14. “The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Who has not been, or is not to be mad in some lonely hour of life? Who is quite safe from the trembling of the balance?”

15. “Who has not been, or is not to be mad in some lonely hour of life? Who is quite safe from the trembling of the balance?”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it’s as well even to take its blessings quietly.”

16. “Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it’s as well even to take its blessings quietly.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?”

17. “Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.”

18. “Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?”

19. “What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.”

20. “A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.′ We repeated the holy sentences of resignation; but it was not resignation, it was despair that subdued the violence of our grief.”

21. “The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.′ We repeated the holy sentences of resignation; but it was not resignation, it was despair that subdued the violence of our grief.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”

22. “Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.”

23. “A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “They were dreamers – and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery.”

24. “They were dreamers – and they dreamt themselves into the cemetery.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Guilt soon learns to lie.”

25. “Guilt soon learns to lie.”

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “There was sufficient left, however, of the liveliness of a long time ago to give an air of ghastly mirth to the old woman’s manner, which made that manner extremely repulsive. What can be more repulsive than old age, which, shorn of the beauties and graces, is yet not purified from the follies or the vices of departed youth?”

26. “There was sufficient left, however, of the liveliness of a long time ago to give an air of ghastly mirth to the old woman’s manner, which made that manner extremely repulsive. What can be more repulsive than old age, which, shorn of the beauties and graces, is yet not purified from the follies or the vices of departed youth?”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon Quote: “Justice to the dead first,” he said; “mercy to the living afterward.”

27. “Justice to the dead first,” he said; “mercy to the living afterward.”

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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