Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

English novelist

Lived from: 1835 - 1915

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 4 october 1835 Died: 1 january 1915

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

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• Guilt soon learns to lie.

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• The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

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

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Subjects in these quotes:

• reconciliation
• enthusiastic
• estrangement
• everything
• peaceful
• treaties

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